Stonebridge Group has added Legal & General to its limited life and protection panel.

& General’s life and protection products will now be accessible to all of the mortgage and insurance network’s appointed representative firms as well as members of the Active Lending Solutions mortgage club who also have access to the panel.

Stonebridge launched the life and protection panel last year to run alongside its existing whole-of-market (WOM) offering.

The panel offers products from a limited number of other providers – Aviva, Friends Provident, PruProtect and LV=.

Advisers using the limited panel gain access to greater commission levels and can forge stronger relationships with panel members. In return users have to commit to working solely with those providers on the panel.

Richard Adams , managing director of Stonebridge Group, said: “We have had a very successful launch to the limited panel and