Sunday, April 19, 2009

California Insurance Agent Courses -What Is Required For Renewal

By edward hulse

California is one of the most active states for insurance sales in the country. This mainly due to it's size. Fortunately for insurance agents in the state, it has relatively easy to fulfill requirement for continuing education. This article covers the bulk of those requirements.

There are several mediums that you can use to fulfill your continuing education requirements. These includes self study, which can be done either online or by video course. I would recommend online due to the cost, and ease. The second option is classroom study. While this is usually much more expensive and time consuming, some specialty courses require it.

Insurance agents must take courses approved for the license he/she is reapplying for. If you are selling California Partnership Long-Term Care, you must acquire 8 hours of California approved LTC credits, and 8 hours of Partnership LTC before you can sell. These are different than other course requirements. After initial requirement are fulfilled, 8 credit hours must be taken every 2 years of both normal LTC and Partnership LTC. A new licensee must complete 8 credit hours of LTC anually, and 8 hours of Partnerhip LTC on a bi-annual basis for the first 4 years. The courses do count towards the basic credit requirements

Any courses taken are required to use the new curriculum labeled CTQ2000. A 4 hour special course must also be taken for any agents who wishes to sell combined group and workers compensation packages. These are also known as 24 hours coverage. This must be done before solicitation can begin.

California has a relatively forgiving carryover policy. Insurance agents with less than 4 years of experience are allowed to carry over up to 25 hours of insurance credits while agents with over 4 years experience can carry over 30 hours to the next term provided they were taken within the last 12 months of the previous term.

Some of the agents that are exempt from these requirements include agents who are 70 and older and have upheld a license in good standing for at least 30 years. These agents are still required to take specialty credit fulfillment requirements such as Partnership LTC. None residents are also exempt but are still help to the specialty requirements mentioned earlier.

Basic requirements which must be met include the completion of 25 hours of CE credit annually for the first 4 years from the initial issuance of the insurance license. After 2 years. Agents must complete 30 credit hours every 2 years. Bail agents must complete only six hours but must complete them in a classroom setting. Agents selling only personal insurance must complete only 20 hours instead of 30.

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