Insurance companies in UK

Admiral Group

Admiral Group plc (LSE: ADM) is a motor insurance company with its head office in Cardiff, Wales. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, it is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Admiral Insurance

Admiral Insurance, part of the Admiral Group, is a car insurance specialist. Its head offices are in Capital Tower, Cardiff, Wales that are shared with its sister companies elephant.co.uk and Bell Insurance. Admiral is currently managed by Managing Director Sue Longthorn.
Adrian Flux Insurance Services

Adrian Flux Insurance Services is a large insurance broker, which employs around 500 staff and is based at East Winch Hall, a historic mansion 6 miles east of King's Lynn in Norfolk. The company is best known for its car insurance operations. Over the years it has developed a reputation for insuring vehicles which might be hard to insure elsewhere.
Aegon UK

Aegon UK is a financial services organisation based in Edinburgh, Scotland, with assets under administration of £53.2 billion. It employs around 4,900 staff. Composed of ten subsidiaries, the company is wholly owned by Aegon N.V. of the Netherlands. The AEGON Group is one of the world’s largest listed insurers and has assets under management of £245 billion.
Amlin

Amlin plc (LSE: AML) is an insurance underwriting company headquartered in London, specialising in the insurance of commercial enterprises.
Arista insurance

Arista insurance is an insurance underwriter company specialising in property, liability and motor classes of business. Launched by Charles Earle and Deputy CEO Lyn Carslake, Arista is focusing on broker administered commercial business in the UK through regional independent brokers. In the medium to long term the new venture will have the capacity to write in excess of £250 million worth of business.
Aviva

Aviva plc (LSE: AV.) is a British insurance group, that is also the fifth largest in the world, the largest insurance group in the UK and the second-largest insurance group in Canada operating as Aviva Canada. It is one of the leading providers of life and pension products in Europe and has a presence in 28 countries worldwide, notably France and The Netherlands.
Beazley Group

Beazley Group plc (LSE: BEZ) is a specialist risk insurance and re-insurance business operating through specific Lloyds syndicates. Established in 1986, the company is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The Chairman is Jonathan Agnew and the Chief Executive is David Horton.
Bell Insurance

Bell Insurance is a car insurance specialist mainly targeting male drivers with low no claims bonus. Bell is currently managed by Managing Director Brian Martin and is situated in the main Admiral Group building in Cardiff, Wales with elephant.co.uk.
Benfield Group

Benfield Group is a leading independent reinsurance and risk intermediary. Customers include most of the world's major insurance and reinsurance companies as well as government entities and global corporations. A former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, the company has been a division of Aon Corporation since November 2008.
Bennetts

Bennetts is a motor insurance provider established in 1930. Bennets insures over 170,000 bikers in the UK (including Northern Ireland). Approximately 300 staff, based at its Contact Centre in Coventry, provide quotes to around 600,000 bikers per year.
Brightside Group

Brightside Group Plc (LSE:BRT) is an insurance broking and financial services business. The company was founded in 2005, is based in Bristol and regulated in the United Kingdom. The company positions itself as “one of the fastest growing insurance broking and financial services businesses in the UK”
Brit Insurance

Brit Insurance Holdings N.V. (LSE: BRE) ) is the parent company of an international general insurance and reinsurance group specialising in commercial insurance. It is a financially strong public company listed on the London Stock Exchange and quoted on the FTSE 250 Index.
Carole Nash

Carole Nash is an insurance intermediary based in Altrincham, Cheshire specialising in providing motorcycle insurance to customers in the UK and Ireland. The company is one of the largest providers of motorcycle insurance in the British Isles, with more than 300,000 policy holders. The company employees around 330 staff across locations in Altrincham and Dublin.
Castle Cover

Castle Cover is an over 50 insurance specialist based in Poole, Dorset in the United Kingdom. Founded in July 2006, Castle Cover was named as the fastest growing UK home insurer in 2007. The company is continuing to grow and develop, with over 200,000 policy holders and employing over 250 people. Castle Cover is expected to reach a turnover of £100m and sign up over 450,600 customers by 2011.
Chaucer Holdings

Chaucer Holdings plc (LSE: CHU) is a specialist risk insurance and re-insurance business operating through specific Lloyds syndicates. Established in 1922, the company is a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The Chairman is Martin Gilbert and the outgoing Chief Executive is Ewen Gilmour, who is due to leave the Board by December 2009.
ChoiceQuote Insurance Services

ChoiceQuote Insurance Services is part of the GAN UK Group, the UK broker division of Groupama Insurances. ChoiceQuote currently employs around 70 staff at its head office in Liverpool, with other branches in Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow.
Churchill Insurance Company

The Churchill Insurance Company is an insurance company based in Kent, in South East England and operating throughout the United Kingdom. Founded in 1989, it was one of the first direct vehicle insurance companies in the UK.
Direct Line

Direct Line is a division of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group that specialises in selling insurance and other financial services over the phone and internet.
Ecclesiastical Insurance

Ecclesiastical Insurance is an insurance company in the United Kingdom founded in 1887. The head office is located in Gloucester.
Elephant.co.uk

Elephant.co.uk is a vehicle insurance brand operated by EUI Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Admiral Group, based in Cardiff, Wales.
Endsleigh Insurance

Endsleigh Insurance is a Cheltenham-based UK insurance intermediary specialising in the student and graduate markets. It is the preferred insurer for several unions and professional associations.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society

The Equitable Life Assurance Society (Equitable Life), founded 1762, is a life insurance company in the United Kingdom. The world's oldest mutual insurer, it pioneered age based premiums based on mortality rate laying “the framework for scientific insurance practice and development” and “the basis of modern life assurance upon which all life assurance schemes were subsequently based”.
Equity Insurance Group

Equity Insurance Group is a UK personal lines and commercial insurer. It comprises two specialist divisions: Equity Red Star, its underwriting arm and Equity Direct Broking, its broking business.
Esure

Esure (usually styled as esure) is an internet and telephone based insurance company based in Reigate, Surrey, England. It also has offices in Manchester and Glasgow. Esure was founded in 1999 by businessman Peter Wood, who also launched the Direct Line insurance company for the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Friends Provident

Friends Provident is an organisation offering life insurance in the United Kingdom. It was founded as a mutual Friendly Society for Quakers, although it was demutualised in 2001 and became a publicly listed company, no longer linked with the Religious Society of Friends.
Go Travel Insurance

Go Travel Insurance are a U.K. online provider of travel insurance services, such as single trip, annual, backpacker, ski holiday and over 50s travel insurance.
Liverpool Victoria

LV (Liverpool Victoria and styled as LV=) is the UK's largest friendly society with approximately 1.1 million members.
Legal & General

Legal & General Group Plc (LSE: LGEN) is a British based financial services company that provides life, other insurance, and pensions and investments. It is headquartered in London and its shares trade on the London Stock Exchange as part of the FTSE 100 Index. As well as the United Kingdom, major markets include France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.
Lloyd's of London

Lloyd's, also known as Lloyd's of London, is a British insurance and reinsurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers, underwriters, or members, whether individuals (traditionally known as Names) or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the insurance and reinsurance industry, it is not a company. The Society of Lloyd's was incorporated by the Lloyd's Act 1871.
Novae Group

Novae Group plc (LSE: NVA) is an insurance underwriting company headquartered in London. John Hastings-Bass is the company's chairman and Matthew Fosh is the chief executive. The Company was founded in 1986 as SVB Holdings plc and changed its name to Novae Group plc in 2006.
Old Mutual

Old Mutual plc (LSE: OML, JSE: OML) is an international long-term savings group. Established in 1845 in South Africa, it is now a FTSE100 listed company operating in 35 countries.
Pearl Group

Pearl Group (Euronext: PEARL) is one of the largest providers of insurance services in the United Kingdom. It is listed on the Euronext.
Privilege

Privilege is a division of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group that specialises in selling insurance over the phone and internet. The company's slogan is You don't have to be posh to be Privileged.
Professional Insurance Agents

Professional Insurance Agents Ltd (PIA) is a specialist professional indemnity, intellectual property and directors and officers' insurance brokerage.
PruHealth

PruHealth is a United Kingdom-based company specialising in Private Medical Insurance sold to the UK market.
Prudential

Prudential plc (LSE: PRU, NYSE: PUK) is a United Kingdom-based financial services company. The company has over 21 million customers worldwide. As well as the UK arm of its operations it has operations in 12 countries in Asia and owns Jackson National Life in the United States. It founded the Egg internet bank, which it sold to Citigroup in 2007. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
RSA Insurance Group

RSA Insurance Group plc (LSE: RSA) is a British general insurance company which rebranded under the RSA brand in April 2008. The company formally changed its name from Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc on 20 May 2008.
Scottish Equitable

Scottish Equitable is a pensions, life assurance and investment company located in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Scottish Widows

Scottish Widows is an investment company located in Edinburgh, Scotland, now a subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group.
Standard Life

Standard Life plc (LSE: SL.) is a financial services institution based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Formerly a mutual society, since 10 July 2006, the company has been listed on the London Stock Exchange. It is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Standard Life Healthcare

Standard Life Healthcare - is a part of the Standard Life Group. The Standard Life Group acquired Prime Health Limited in 1994 and in 2000 renamed the company Standard Life Healthcare. Standard Life Healthcare expanded in March 2006 with the acquisition of the Bournemouth based PMI business of FirstAssist. As part of this process they relocated their head office from Guildford, Surrey to Bournemouth. They also have a large office in Stockport, Cheshire.
Sun Life Financial

Sun Life Financial Inc. (TSX: SLF, NYSE: SLF, PSE: SLF) is a leading international financial services company known primarily as a life insurance company. Sun Life ranks number 187 on the Forbes Global 2000 list (2008 edition).
Sureterm Direct

Sureterm Direct is a specialist insurance intermediary in the United Kingdom. It is best known for placing risks for Four-wheel drive and Recreational vehicle insurance.
Swinton Colonnade

Swinton (Swinton Group Ltd) is a British insurance brokerage and is owned by French insurers 'La Mutuelle du Mans Assurances IARD' (MMA Insurance plc), a company incorporated in France. Swinton has 450+ branches across the UK and in excess of 3,000 employees.
The Co-operative Insurance

The Co-operative Insurance, formally Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd, is a large insurance company based in Manchester in the United Kingdom. It is one of the two main constituents of Co-operative Financial Services, which is in turn owned by Co-operative Group Ltd, formerly the Co-operative Wholesale Society.
Totally Insured

Totally Insured Group is the leading specialist for impaired lifes looking for life insurance in the UK As independent financial advisors specialising in providing insurance for special risks clients and people with pre-existing medical conditions typically not covered by the leading insurance companies. Ron Moonesinghe managing director says, this unwillingness of large insures to offer cover for specialised conditions has been mentioned in national newspapers.
UIA (Insurance)

UIA (Insurance) Limited is a mutual insurance company in the United Kingdom, providing general insurance products to trade union members. It is a member of the Association of British Insurers, the Financial Ombudsman Service and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. UIA (Insurance Services) Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Zurich Financial Services

Zurich Financial Services AG (SIX: ZURN) is a major financial services group based in Zürich, Switzerland.