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Name: Life insurance
Rating: 4.08 (113 reviews)

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4.01

Based on 113 reviews, last reviewed 5th Sep 2025

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Life insurance is a product hard to evaluate. Life insurance is a product hard to evaluate. It's best to never know. So, back to L&G, they are taking my regular payments, they delegated a 3rd part... Read more Reviewed on: 5th September 2025

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Do not put your trust in them Do not be lured by the glossy brochures and comfort inducing advertising, Legal and General do not want to help you or your family when your life is t... Read more Reviewed on: 23rd March 2025

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You can get L&G (Legal and General) life insurance by applying online.

L&G have partnered with RedArc Assured Limited to provide a Wellbeing Support service. You’ll have access to phone-based services to support your mental health and wellbeing. With each policy, you get accidental death benefit at no extra cost.

L&G life insurance reviews help you find out what it’s really like to be a customer. If you’ve used L&G before, you can also leave a review and share your experience.

Legal and General Life insurance reviews (113)

Review of the Legal and General, Life insurance:

Do not put your trust in them

Do not be lured by the glossy brochures and comfort inducing advertising, Legal and General do not want to help you or your family when your life is turned upside down by a critical illness, engineerd to minimum industry guidance allows them to abandon you after decades of paying your premiums in your time of utmost need, walk away from you. Claims handlers, trained to operate with narrow minds to disassemble your criticall illness. I had an emergency admission to A+E, full Re-sus, a severe lung heamorrage, huge blood loss, multiple organ failure, my heart failed, kidneys and liver failed, I was kept alive by ITU. Lungs bleeding requiring many blood transfusions, I was on highest level life support, and transfered to specialist unit, ia coma for weeks I was not expected to survive and they where not sure if I would be the same if I did wake up. I did survive, thanks to our NHS and the love for my familiy. Legal and General dont believe this meets there policy for critical illness!? I required months of chemotherapy and treatments, months off work, many years of treatments to come. I could not walk for months, I sufferd daily to this day, permanent disabilty, caused by an autoimmune disease, my consultants affirm A-Typical ANCA Negative Vasculitis, a very rare autoimmune disease, the cause of which is understood to be SLE, (Lupus), an insured critera, but Legal and General refuse to accept the wording, or the science, will not accept medical papers, rheumatologist written statement, Renal consultant diagnosis, because they have to have it so specificlly written in words as they lack suitably qualified staff and CMOs, they are not competent. I sufferd permanent kidney damage, Legal and General argue on words, new medical tests are ignored when inconvenient to there repuduation narrative. There is no integrity, they operate with the devil in the detail and are not critical thinkers. Legal and General will sell you a policy for peace of mind, it really is not at all, in my experience they will do everything at there disposal to reject your claim. Be wary when a concerned claims handler calls you out of the blue to discuss your claim, they are decietfully recording your phone call without your prior consent or permission, speaks volumes on how they operate. Legal and General argue against your medical consultants, albeit incorrectly, with highly dubious medical opinions that are out of date, and refutable, however there CMO's opinions are treated as the final word by claims handlers, they answer to absolutley no-one when challenged or queried on the science, completely untouchable unless you have the resources of your own solicitor, the CMO at Legal and General is GP, hardly comparable to current practising specialist medical consultant, yet Legal and General can make innacurate arguments against you and your healthcare professionals and consultants, with no recourse, a policy holder cannot respond, because they refuse to answer your lettters or engage in dialogue, they operate with impunity at this level. Dont rely on the in house complaints pricess, or Ombudsman, they have no medical knowledge, they are unable to challenge Legal and General in this regard, dont want to be seen as argumentative in areas they have no knowledge, defaulting to accepting Legal and General CMO, even when wrong or challenged. If had not survived, which there was a very real chance I was not going to, I have no confidence whatsoever that Legal and General would honour my life insurance policy to my family. Legal and General have failed me after a serious near death criticall ilness. life time disability and injuries, all of which I am insured. Integirty,morals,ethics,values do not appear in there ethos or culture in my experience. since 1836, making billions for the shareholders, by failing there duty to policyholders, a muti billion organisation making its money dishonestly Shame on you Legal and General. Reviewed on: 23rd March 2025

Good product

No issues with the life insurance Reviewed on: 22nd August 2024

No option for 0 stars

Poor poor service and an embarrassment and complete shambles of an insurance company, I inserted a claim back in February 2024 for income protection which was recommended to me when I got my mortgage back in 2018 I have been signed off work since September 23 due to ill health and incapacity to work. I have supplied all recommended documents and you have received all the necessary documents to support my claim...........however your contacting my gp for further information for medical information prior to when I took your "recommended" policy out which has therefore put my claim at risk and has been declined! I've been paying the policy £15.96 every month for this policy and I'm not seeing any benefit from it!!! I have a dependent under 18 with no income at the moment as I'm currently attending acute day service due to my ill health and you as a company aren't helping with my recovery at all!!! Your quite happy to phone my gp for a duty of care consultation but you clearly don't care one bit at all! Your quite happy to take my money monthly knowing I don't have an income that I can't pay my bills. When asked about to your colleagues what if they were in my situation they couldn't comment like they don't have a sense of care at all or empathy. It's not just one person handling the case it's multiple people which doesn't make sense at all! I will be seeking legal advice and speaking to the insurance ombudsman regarding this matter and you as a company and employees should be ashamed quite happy to pass the blame so on and so forth don't know how you all sleep at night!!!! Because I know dam sure I don't sleep. Holly in your clinical team rings me for an update and asks the relevant details and updates but if I don't answer it will impact my claim.....it seems this has already been impacted by your inconsistent unprofessional manner and day to day running!! I've already put a complaint in and have been informed this can take up to 8 weeks which is absolutely disgusting!! Oh and to add to this a decision was made on the update portal on Friday 5th July no email notification or phone call, I had to take this upon myself and ring up to be informed its been declined and to be told the person who has been dealing with the case has gone home.....hmmmm this sounds to me very unprofessional and not a care in the world. I will be making further complaints and making everyone fully aware what you have done and are doing not individually but as a whole company. Reviewed on: 8th July 2024

Good policy that is comprehensive and is affordable.

Good policy that is comprehensive and is affordable. Reviewed on: 25th May 2024

I am a first time customer in the last year.

I am a first time customer in the last year. I was very surprised by the ease of selecting a product, the information available to make that decision and the continuing support and updates I get. I would highly recommend them. Reviewed on: 24th May 2024

Total peace of mind!

Upon speaking to any agent whenever I've needed them they have been patient, helpfully and very thorough in taking their time to make sure your satisfied. Exactly what you need when chatting about your life insurance. Total peace of mind! Reviewed on: 23rd May 2024

Excellent service

Legal and General paid out life insurance with no problems whatsoever, no excessive asking for information. Purchased via a broker around 17 years ago. Dealt with quickly and easily at a very distressing time. Really good customer service, very sympathetic and professional and I would highly recommend and use again in the future. Reviewed on: 20th May 2024

I would give zero stars if possible!

I would give zero stars if possible! Shocking Experience with Legal & General for a Critical illness cover . After 6 years of payments on the insurance when I have done a claim , they have declined my claim after 8 months of investigation as well as cancelling my insurance and they have returned my payments back . Why didn’t they tell me after a month, a year …???? At this stage no other company will offer me a insurance , probably if I died, my wife and kids would have been homeless by now. Reviewed on: 19th March 2024

Poorly tested admin procedures causing customers unn...

Poorly tested admin procedures causing customers unnecessary inconvenience with obstacles impossible to overcome. Rigid bureaucracy. Corporate arrogance. It's all about Legal & General. "Sod the investors; we've got their money and they can't get it back." Legal & General is a self-serving, annuity-fund detention centre. Reviewed on: 8th February 2024

Very happy with how I have been treated

Very happy with how I have been treated Reviewed on: 31st January 2024

Quick and simple

Very easy to set up life insurance at a good price Reviewed on: 31st August 2023

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