Continuing Education
Washington State Requirements
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Washington State Requirements
Effective January 1, 2006, the requirement will be reduced to twenty-four hours of approved continuing education. Three of those hours must be Ethics. Effective January 1, 2007,a licensee with Vehicle authority only will be required to meet the continuing education requirement.
Non-residents are exempt from continuing education requirements.
“Approved” means a seminar, class, or self-study course that have been granted insurance continuing education credits by the Commissioner. Community colleges, vocational-technical institutes, insurance companies, agent’s and broker’s associations, industry trade associations, individuals, educational organizations and insurance training schools offer these courses. In addition, the Office of Insurance Commissioner will, from time to time, conduct seminars that are approved for continuing education. When an individual successfully completes an approved course, he/she will receive a certificate of completion from the sponsoring organization.
Licensees are not required to complete only those courses that present a topic in the line of insurance for which he or she is licensed. It is suggested, however, that licensees attempt to take courses covering the lines of insurance for which they are licensed most of the time.
Licensees must include copies of the Certificate of Completion of continuing education courses with the license renewal application. All courses must have been completed within the twenty-four months immediately preceding the assigned renewal date and may not be repeated more than once in a three year period.
Excess credit may NOT be carried over. Licensees must retain each certificate of completion for a minimum of three years from the date the course is used for continuing education compliance.
The Commissioner conducts audits to monitor compliance with the continuing education requirement. An audit letter may request that you provide additional information relating to courses you reported at renewal time. Failure to provide the requested information or documentation may result in disciplinary action against an individual’s agent, broker or solicitor license.
A list of organizations that sponsor approved continuing education courses is available from the Licensing & Education Section of the Insurance Commissioner’s Office. Licensees should contact the listed organizations to determine which courses are currently offered.
Resident and nonresident licensees engaged in the transaction of long-term care insurance, long term care partnership insurance or both, are required to take an approved six-hour course on long term care, long term partnership, or both, initially. Effective April 2005, they may take a refresher four-hour course every two years. The Commissioner will prescribe the content of the course. Each course will be approved in advance. The insurer, not the licensee must certify to the Commissioner, that its appointees complied with this requirement.
The approved six-hour and four-hour courses may also count towards the thirty-two required continuing education credit hours , if it is approved for that purpose.
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