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Licensure & Compliance
Life including Variable Annuity and/or Health Applicants: Applicants who hold the CLU designation and have been engaged in the insurance business within the 4-year period prior to filing their application for license with the Department are not required to meet the pre-licensing educational requirement or sit for the life including variable annuity and/or health examination. An original letter from the American College of Life Underwriters certifying an applicant's designation status is required.
General Lines (Property & Casualty) Insurance Agent, Motor Vehicle Physical Damage and Mechanical Breakdown Insurance Agent, Industrial Fire or Burglary Insurance Agent, Customer Representative and Adjuster Applicants: Applicants who hold the CPCU designation and have been engaged in the insurance business within a 4-year period prior to filing their application for license with the Department, are not required to meet the pre-licensing educational requirement or sit for the general lines (property, casualty, surety, health, marine and miscellaneous lines of insurance), motor vehicle physical damage and mechanical breakdown, industrial fire or burglary, customer representative or adjuster examinations. An original letter from the American Institute for Property and Liability Underwriters certifying an applicant's designation status is required.
Customer Representative applicants who do not hold the CPCU Designation: Applicants who hold the Accredited Advisor in Insurance (AAI) designation from the Insurance Institute of America, or the Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) designation from the Society of Certified Insurance Service Counselors, or the Accredited Customer Service Representative (ACSR) designation from the Independent Insurance Agents of America, or the Certified Professional Service Representative (CPSR) designation from the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents, or the Certified Insurance Service Representative (CISR) designation from the Society of Certified Insurance Service Representatives, or the Certified Customer Service Representative (CCSR), or the Registered Customer Service Representative (RCSR), or the Professional Customer Service Representative (PCSR) are not required to sit for the customer representative examination. An original letter from the applicable accrediting entity certifying an applicant's designation status is required.
Company and Independent adjuster applicants who hold any of the following designations, Accredited Claims Adjuster (ACA), Certified Claims Adjuster (CCA), Professional Property Insurance Adjuster (PPIA), Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Professional Claims Adjuster (PCA) or Certified Adjuster (CA) are not required to sit for the state adjuster examination. An original letter from the applicable accrediting entity certifying an applicant’s designation status is required. Effective July 1, 2007, Public adjuster applicants can no longer exempt the state adjuster examination by holding one of the adjuster designations listed above.