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Is EZPZ Legit? How We Work and Who's Behind Your Policy

Is EZPZ legit? We're a broker, not the insurer. Here's who actually issues, administers and reinsures your policy, how we get paid, and what real customers say.

By Quinn Miller · Published 12 August · Updated 2 days ago

If you’re about to trust a company with your family’s safety net, checking whether it’s legit is the right instinct. And yes, you’re reading the answer on our own website, which is a strange place to look for an honest one. Fair.

So let’s skip the reassurance and start with the part that actually matters: we’re not an insurance company. We’re a broker.

That sounds like a technicality. It isn’t.

Four companies, one policy, and only one of them is us

A mortgage broker doesn’t lend you money. They know the market, match you to a lender, and handle the annoying parts. We do the same thing for life insurance, and there are several separate players behind every policy we arrange.

EZPZ. That’s the trading name of Tenzing Pacific Services Limited. We’re Unisure’s authorized distributor. We don’t hold your premium and we don’t carry any risk. Our job is figuring out what you actually need, matching you to it, and staying reachable if something changes.

Unisure. Unisure International designs the plans and administers them. It’s a UK company regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Guardrisk. This is the licensed insurer that issues your policy and carries the risk. In plain terms, Guardrisk is the company legally on the hook to pay a claim.

Gen Re. Even an insurer doesn’t want to sit alone with catastrophic risk, so Gen Re reinsures the policies. Reinsurance is insurance for insurers. Gen Re is a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary and one of the biggest reinsurers in the world.

Why does that matter? Because we’re not the ones deciding whether your claim gets paid, and we never touch that money. If we wanted to be the villain here, we’d need a pretty specific and pointless plan for it.

Follow the money

Here’s the real question hiding inside “is this company legit”: do we make more when you make a worse decision?

No. A few reasons.

Your premium is fixed the day you sign. It doesn’t quietly climb with your age or with inflation, the way some older-style policies do. We don’t profit from a rate hike you didn’t see coming, because there isn’t one.

We also don’t sell whole life or universal life, the products that bundle insurance with a savings account and pay the biggest commissions. Those tend to underperform for the buyer. We only arrange term life, which is simpler, cheaper, and does one job. That’s a lower commission for us, on purpose. We’ve written about why term usually beats whole life even though it makes us less money per client.

And we check in after the sale. Annual reviews, a heads-up if a better option opens up. A broker who disappears the second you sign has no reason to still be useful in year five. We do, because most of our new clients come from referrals, not ads.

Are we a charity? No. We take a commission, like any broker does. But there’s a real difference between a business that makes money by helping you and one that makes money by hoping you never read the fine print. We’re trying to be the first kind. Judge for yourself whether we’re pulling it off.

The sales pitch you won’t get

The other thing that makes this industry feel gross is pressure. Being pushed to sign something you half understand because someone’s chasing a quota.

We built against that on purpose. Every consultation is free, with no obligation to buy anything that day, that week, or ever. Our resource library exists so you can read up on term life and coverage sizing before you talk to a human, not so you have to trust us blind.

And you do talk to a human, usually our founder Quinn Miller, who’s an expat and a dad and not reading off a script.

If you want to read everything, get a quote, and vanish for three weeks before deciding, go ahead. Nobody here gets paid faster because you moved fast.

What people say when we’re not in the room

We’re sitting at a 5.0 on Google right now. Instead of asking you to trust that number, here’s what a few real people said.

Sergio, an expat in Vietnam, said the process was fully digital and fast, and that he’d recommend it for protecting his family. (Read it on Google)

Josh Webber said he had no idea where to start, and his advisor walked him through it with zero sales pressure, which he said he couldn’t say about other places he’d tried. (Read it on Google)

Paul Green, based in Thailand, called the application smooth and said his advisor handled the coordination with the provider for him. (Read it on Google)

Those three aren’t cherry-picked. Go read the rest yourself. We didn’t write them and we can’t edit them.

One honest caveat

We’re not whole-of-market. We work primarily with Unisure, not every insurer that exists. If your goal is squeezing out the absolute last percentage point of savings across every provider on the planet, a full comparison site might get you closer than we will. We won’t pretend otherwise.

What we’re good for is a straight, fast, digital process with someone who’ll actually pick up the phone. Different goal, same honesty either way.

One more thing, since it confuses people: there’s an unrelated US business called EZPZ Insurance in Florida. That’s not us. We’re EZPZ at ezpz.insure, focused only on life insurance for expats and internationally mobile families.

So, check our work

Every claim above is checkable without asking us anything. Fixed premiums are in the policy terms. Unisure’s status is on the FCA register, public and searchable right now. Gen Re’s reinsurance business is public. Our reviews are on Google, not on a page we control.

Go look. Search “Unisure International Life Insurance FCA register” and see what comes up before you take our word for any of this. If you want the full picture of how the cover itself works, our expat life insurance guide walks through it start to finish.

This article is for general information only and isn’t financial or insurance advice. Speak with a licensed adviser about your specific circumstances.

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Quinn Miller, founder of EZPZ, with his family.

The person you'll talk to

Quinn Miller.
Father , expat, your broker.

Quinn has been Managing Partner at Tenzing Pacific since 2014, and has put more than 25,000 hours into insurance for people living abroad: employee benefits, family health cover, C-level executives and life insurance.

He has been an expat himself for over thirteen years. He lives abroad with his wife, their two kids and the dog, and spends what time is left outdoors.

Quinn created EZPZ to take the stress out of international life insurance — and when you book a call, you talk directly to Quinn.

Since 2014

Managing Partner, Tenzing Pacific

25,000+

hours in expat insurance