Specialist broker Cura Financial Services has linked up with The Openwork Partnership.
The financial advice network said the arrangement with Cura would enable its advisers to help clients with specialist protection needs get access to the life, critical illness, and income protection insurance they needed.
Cura Financial Services helps clients whose situations can include a high-risk occupation, extensive travel to foreign countries, pre-existing health conditions or hazardous pastimes, obtain insurance by using its network of specialist insurers.
This can include clients with a history of cancer, heart attack, strokes, mental health issues and HIV as well as clients in the Armed Forces, working offshore, at heights or under water.
Paul Shearman, proposition director for mortgages and protection at The Openwork Partnership, said: “Cura Financial Services is a fantastic multi-award-winning addition to our protection proposition and will help our advisers to support even more clients and enable them to get the insurance they need.”
Alan Knowles, managing director of Cura, (pictured) added: “It’s disappointing for both advisers and clients when protection can’t be offered due to a health condition, occupational risk or travel disclosures.
“The Openwork Partnership advisers now have a greater opportunity to be able to place clients who previously would have been declined.
“We’re absolutely delighted to be working with The Openwork Partnership and look forward to helping to protect more clients.”
