Paradigm Group has added Bupa Individual Protection to its Elite Protection Panel.

The move allows members of the IFA and mortgage partnership proposition to access its suite of protection products which includes income protection, life cover and critical illness cover. In 2010 both the critical illness and income protection products were re-accredited with a 5-star rating from Defaqto.

Those protection providers accepted on to the Paradigm Elite Panel pay improved commission terms to intermediaries that agree to only select products from the providers in question. For Paradigm members access to the panel is granted once an appropriate agreement has been signed.

Bob Hunt, chief executive of Paradigm Mortgage Services, said: “At Paradigm