ESSENTIAL INSURANCE FIRST TO WIN PLATINUM TRUSTED SERVICE AWARD
Essential Insurance is proud to be one of the first companies to win the Feefo Platinum Trusted Service award. The prestigious Platinum Trusted Service award is reserved only for those businesses that go above and beyond to provide a consistently excellent service and dedicate themselves to acing their customer experience... Read More 
How to buy life insurance and get it right
As parents, we want to see our children grow up happy, healthy, safe, secure and successful. The thought of not being there, and the effect that would have on them, is almost too distressing to think about. However regrettably, a parent of a child under 18 dies every 22 minutes... Read More
A monthly payment could become your life saver
It's not nice to think about what would happen if you found yourself unable to work because of a serious illness. Far too many of us adopt an ostrich-like response that the worst will never happen, or we choose to ignore how far our lifestyle could be devastated - that’s... Read More
5 reasons to choose Essential Insurance to help protect your family’s future.
We understand everyone’s unique. That’s why we offer a service that is tailored to the needs of our customers looking for life insurance – a personal service designed to provide the help, advice, and support that our customers truly value. But don’t just take our word for it – you... Read More
Small businesses: you can’t predict the future, but you can protect it with key person insurance.
Figures published at the end of last year state that there are 5.6 million small businesses in the UK that employ less than 50 people. If you run a small business, it’s likely that you’ll rely much more heavily on the individual members of your workforce than much larger companies... Read More
A third of UK homeowners with a mortgage direct from a lender have no protection policy in place
Legal & General Mortgage Club has revealed that over a third (34%) of consumers who purchased their mortgage direct from a lender have absolutely no protection policy in place, such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover or Income Protection. The research, which included a survey of over 2,000 UK homeowners,... Read More
UK employment rate at record high
The latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that UK employment levels have reached a record high - the UK employment rate was estimated at 76.1%, the joint-highest on record. Jobs requiring more qualifications, particularly in sectors like technology and science, continued to show the biggest... Read More
Record protection payouts recorded – proving it does pay to be insured!
If you’ve ever doubted, or wondered whether if the worst did happen, you’d get a successful payout if you, or your family, ever had to make a claim, you need not worry. New figures released today by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and Group Risk Development (GRiD) show that... Read More
Essential Insurance joins the Protection Distributors Group
We are pleased to confirm that Essential Insurance is one of the latest firms to join the Protection Distributors Group (PDG). The PDG was formed in 2016 to drive change in the protection market and encourage insurers and intermediaries to deliver better consumer outcomes. Over the past three years the... Read More
Business protection insurance could increase the odds of business survival
The UK is home to around 5.7 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which accounts for over 99% of all UK businesses [the usual definition of an SME is any business with fewer than 250 employees]. However, when Turner Little, company formation agents, scraped data from Companies House for insights... Read More