Half of Openwork advisers now on protection panel

Openwork Select features five providers (Aegon Scottish Equitable, Friends Life, Legal & General, Zurich and LV=) which collectively account for almost 40% of the protection market. The network said users had been writing around 20% more protection business as a result of an increased focus on income protection and critical illness. Paul Shearman, mortgage, protection and general insurance proposition director at Openwork, added: "For so many users to have adopted the panel demonstrates how important protection has become for clients. "As advisers increasingly seek to diversify we ...