Mortgage partnership proposition Paradigm Mortgage Services has added PruProtect’s Life and Serious Illness Cover products to its preferred protection panel.

PruProtect provides level, decreasing or index-linked Life Cover, Serious Illness Cover, Disability Cover, Unemployment Cover and Income Protection. PruProtect’s plans take a severity-based approach to client’s cover meaning individuals are covered not just for critical conditions but also serious illnesses and partial disabilities.

PruProtect’s Serious Illness Cover plan covers up to 154 illnesses and includes the option to renew the plan following a claim without further underwriting and without any additional exclusions.

Paradigm claims that as a result of the partnership the net commission terms available to its members are amongst the leading terms available in the market and in all cases the consumer/client rates are the best intermediary terms available from the provider.

Bob Hunt, chief executive of Paradigm Mortgage Services, said: “PruProtect provide a range of innovative products and services which our member firms are now able to access