52 Hour Insurance Course in California
Author: Mark GenoveseThere is also a beginning and continuing professional education requirement for insurance licenses. For example, California requires 52 hour insurance course, i.e. 52 hours of prelicense education before qualifying to take the life insurance exam. During the first four years, licensees must take at least 25 CPE hours per year. Thereafter, the CPE requirement is 15 hours annually in a course approved in advance by the California insurance department.
General Course Description
This course will teach you the Educational Objectives that the California Department of Insurance has determined you need to know and thus prepare you to pass the State exam. This includes 40 hours of Life, Health & Disability as well as the 12 hours of Codes & Ethics.
Package Includes:
1. Online study manual as well as a hardcopy shipped directly to you.
2. Lesson Quizzes
3. E-mail & Phones Support
4. Certificate of Completion
5. Reporting directly to the California Department of Insurance
6. Online Review Questions Available for 90 Days | Excellent educational tool for students to study & prepare to pass the state exam | Students score 65% higher on the California state exam after using these online review questions.
Effective January 1st, 2007 the California Department of Insurance has amended the California Code to allow online Insurance pre-license training. No more long commutes, high costs or waiting until a lecture class starts. With over five years of insurance pre-license training experience in California, ISSC is at the forefront of the changing insurance training marketplace. Look at the press release text below:
Assembly Bill 2387 (Vargas, Chapter 590, Statutes of 2006) was signed into law on September 28, 2006 and will take effect on January 1, 2007. This law amends Section 1749 of the California Insurance Code to removethe word "classroom" from the prelicensing requirement and will add Section 1749 (g) to ensure that safeguards are in place to maintain the integrity of prelicensing education. As a result of this change, prelicensing education providers approved by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) can now submit online prelicensing education courses to the Commissioner for approval.
Although regulations will be required to implement this legislative change, the CDI will review these courses prior to the Office of Administrative Law's approval of the regulations. Courses approved by the CDI will be given "provisional approval," which means that the course may be offered immediately as with the case of any CDI approved course. However, these courses are subject to further review once the regulations are approved which could potentially result in required changes to the course.
Until such time as the California Code of Regulations can be amended to reflect the change in the statute, the reviews of online prelicensing education courses will be accomplished by ensuring that they meet the requirements set forth in Section 1749 of the California Insurance Code. Section 1749 states, in part, the following:
?? Applicants for a license as a fire and casualty broker-agent, life agent, and personal lines broker-agent are to complete the minimum prelicensing education hours required (i.e. 20 or 40 hours of product training, whichever is applicable, and 12 hours of code and ethics training);
Assembly Bill 2387 also added Section 1749 (h) which will become effective on January 1, 2007. This section states that all prelicensing certificates of completion will now expire three years after the completion of the prelicensing course, whether or not a license is issued to the student.
California requires 52 hour insurance course before qualifying to take the life insurance exam.
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