At LifeSearch, we work with a wide range of trusted insurers to help you find the right protection for your needs, budget and lifestyle. Whether it’s expert support services, flexible cover options or added wellbeing benefits, every insurer we partner with brings something unique.
We’re proud to work with some of the best in the business, giving you peace of mind that you’re protected properly.
About Aviva
One of the UK’s biggest insurers with some 11 million customers, Aviva can trace its history back to London’s Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society established in 1696. Although a multinational company, Aviva’s core life insurance markets remain the UK and Ireland.
About Beagle Street
Founded in 2012, Beagle Street is an online life insurance company specialising in life insurance and critical illness cover. Part of the BGL Group, the company ultimately employs over 3,000 people with 8.9 million customers on its books.
About British Friendly
British Friendly is a mutual society, owned by its 30,000 members. Founded in 1902 to support business travellers and their families, it now specialises in protecting the incomes of members working in high-risk occupations.
About Cirencester Friendly
Founded in 1890, Cirencester Friendly is a member owned mutual society with over 135 years of experience providing income protection support. Because Cirencester Friendly has no shareholders, every decision is made with its members in mind, ensuring profits go straight back into enhancing their protection and support.
About Guardian
Starting in 1821 as Guardian Fire & Life, the company operated under different names for a century before relaunching as Guardian into the UK market in 2018; on the strength of family-friendly life insurance cover and service.
About Holloway
Founded in 1880, the insurance company - a friendly society owned by its members - pioneered income protection as we know it today.
About Legal & General
Legal & General was founded by six lawyers in 1836 to sell, among other things, early life cover. Today, Legal & General are a FTSE-listed institution with multiple locations, 10,000 employees and millions of life insurance customers.
About LV=
LV= began in Liverpool in March 1843, collecting regular premiums locals to cover community funerals. In 2007, Liverpool Victoria changed to LV= and, today, 1,300 employees service over a million life insurance customers.
About Royal London
The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited, to give it its full name, was founded in 1861 and is today the largest pension and insurance mutual in the UK, with nine million members (customers) and some 4,000 employees.
About Scottish Widows
Established in 1815 to take care of the bereaved families of the Napoleonic Wars, the Edinburgh-based company today has over six million customers and some 3,000 employees across its life insurance and pensions businesses.
About The Exeter
The Exeter Friendly Society, is one of the UK’s largest friendly societies with over 90,000 members. The company, which offers a range life insurance products and related health and help services, was founded in 1927 in Exeter.
About Vitality
Founded in 1994, Vitality’s incentive-based programmes encourage and reward healthy life insurance customer habits. Vitality employs 1,400 people, with three UK hubs in London, Bournemouth and Stockton.
About Zurich
Named after the Swiss city in which it was founded in 1872, Zurich employs over 4,500 people in the UK to take care of general insurance customers, including a broad range of individual and business life insurance products and services.