How does legal insurance work?

Legal insurance is insurance that covers the cost associated with legal and business procedures. In the Netherlands, there are different legal insurances for private and business legal protection.

The most important types of legal insurance are:

Business legal insurance
Private legal insurance

Benefits of the legal insurance

Free access to legal advice

Legal insurance helps you access legal advice, even if you normally cannot afford it.

Save costs

Legal insurance makes sure the legal fees are affordable when you have a serious legal issue, which can be very costly.

Piece of mind

Legal insurance helps provide a professional, neutral party to help solve your issues in extreme cases where you're backed by a large insurer.

Protection

Your insurer helps you protect yourself from the law by providing all available resources you need to fight when being in a legal battle.

Our best legal insurance providers in the Netherlands

Centraal Beheer Legal Insurance

Centraal Beheer is an insurance company that is part of the Achmea group. Founded in 1990 in Amsterdam and moved to Apeldoorn in the 1970s. Centraal Beheer is one of the biggest insurers in the Netherlands, which makes sure their customer service is very helpful and prices are competitive.

Rating: 8.4/10 - 1,569 reviews

Unive Legal Insurance

Unive is a non-profit cooperative insurer. Unive customers are in most cases also members of the cooperative. Unive is a non-profit, so their prices are as competitive as possible. The legal insurance of Unive is easy to request via their site.

Rating: 8.3/10 - 1,130 reviews

InShared Legal Insurance

If all customers from InShared do their best to prevent damage and they learn costs down, money is left over. And everyone benefits from that. This beautiful basic principle that makes insurance fairly clear is what makes InShared unique.

Rating: 8.2/10 - 2,129 reviews

Legal insurance in the Netherlands