Connecticut State Requirements

Updated: 02/28/2012

Continuing Education Hours

• 24 hours required every two years.

Course Subject Requirements

• At least 3 hours must be in CE insurance law & regulation and/or ethics.
• At least 6 hours must be taken in each line for which the producer is licensed (LH, PC and Variable are all separate lines).
• Effective February 18, 2012, all annuity producers must complete a one-time 4-hour annuity training course.
• All property and casualty producers and personal lines producers must complete a one-time 3-hour flood training course.
• Life settlement brokers must complete 15 hours of CE every 2 years by March 31^st.

Long-Term Care Partnership (LTCP) producers must meet additional requirements, including:

• The producer must be licensed as an Accident and Health producer in Connecticut and hold a valid license.
• The producer must complete an initial 8-hour LTCP online course to begin offering LTCP, or a live 4-hour classroom course to continue offering LTCP.

Continuing Education Compliance Date

All continuing education credits must be achieved by the date of the license renewal.

License expires on producer's birthday, every 2 years.

Types of Courses Accepted for CE Credit

Self study courses and classroom courses.

Final Exam

Self-study final exams are required to be monitored by a disinterested third party (i.e. someone with no business or family relationship to the student).

Carryover Requirements

Excess CE credit hours may not be carried over to the next reporting period.

Course Repetition

Courses may not be taken more than once in each reporting period.

Exemptions

• Individuals who became licensed during the second year of the biennium are exempt for that first reporting period.
• Producers who only hold Surety Bail Bond license, limited lines of authority such as, Credit and Accident/Travel Baggage.
• Casualty Adjusters.
• Those serving in US military on active duty outside Connecticut during substantial part of compliance period.

Method to Certify Completion

Your certificate of completion will be emailed to you after you have completed your exam. The course provider reports credits earned to CE administrator within one business day of course completion or receipt of examination. The producer keeps certificates of completion in his or her files for the current and previous CE period.

Roster Fees

A roster fee of $3.75 per course ordered is required to process course completion hours in Connecticut

Nonresidents

Exempt if producer's home state has a reciprocal agreement with Connecticut. Producer must submit proof of compliance, letter of certification or PDB printout, with license renewal. If producer's home state does not have a CE reciprocal agreement, producer must comply with Connecticut's CE requirement. Producer must submit CE filing fee to Thomson Prometric.

For Additional Information Please Contact

Connecticut Insurance Department
Licensing Division

PO Box 816
Hartford, CT 06142-0816

Mailing Address:
Connecticut Department of Insurance
153 Market St.
Hartford, CT 06103

Phone: (860) 297-3845

Fax: 860-297-3978

Email: cid.licensing@ct.gov

State Website: http://www.ct.gov/cid/site/default.asp

Course Format

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If your state requires monitored exams, you must have your monitor sign-in and follow the monitor instructions BEFORE you begin the exam.  See the State Information tab, Monitor tab and Help Center for more information.

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Monitor Information

Many states require that your test be monitored by a 3rd party when you take this course. The person taking the test and the monitor must sign an affidavit and submit it to the CE Provider. Those states are:

Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbie, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Other states require no monitor, but still require an affidavit to be filled out and submitted to the CE Provider before credit can be granted for a passed course. Those states are:

Florida and Ohio.

If you are going to be requesting a certificate or credit in any of the states' mentioned, then you will need to have a monitor present when you take the 8 hour course, and have them fill out the correct monitor form (one for each state you are requesting the certificate from that requires a monitor). You can find all of the monitor forms by clicking here.

Optional PACE or CFP Credit

Many of our Insurance CE courses are also approved for CE credit for agents who hold professional designations such as CLU, ChFC, CFP. The type of CE credit and number of hours approved are listed above in the course description.