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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

New Courses at LearnInsurance

We have released some new courses at LearnInsurance.com that might interest you:

  • Texas License Preparation Courses - Texas Life & Health and Property & Casualty Insurance Practice Exams (workbook)
    These courses will help you prepare for your Texas Insurance License Examinations in Life & Health and/or Property & Casualty

We have also recently received new Insurance CE course approvals in 5 different states. The newly approved courses and the states they are approved in are listed below. As we continue to grow our available course catalog we hope to make course topics available that interest all Insurance Licensees while in the process of renewing their licenses.

  • California Insurance CE
  • California 4 Hour Annuities – This course meets the 4 hour annuities requirement for CA that states any agents continuing to sell annuities must complete a 4-hour state-approved Annuity CE course each subsequent compliance period.



  • Maryland Insurance CE

  • Agency Operations
    Annuities
    Anti-Money Laundering for Insurance Professionals
    Employment Law
    Intro to Property and Casualty and the Insurance Contract
    Life, Health, Disability, and Long Term Care
    Medicare
    New Employee
    Principles of Insurance
    Property Insurance

  • Michigan Insurance CE

  • Estate Planning Basic
    Evaluating Financial Performance
    HIPAA for Insurance Professionals
    Mergers and Acquisitions Part I
    Mergers and Acquisitions Part II
    Mergers and Acquisitions Part III
    Management Of Capital

Monday, June 18, 2007

Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Nominated

This week Joel Scott Ario, currently Oregon’s chief insurance regulator, has been nominated to serve as Pennsylvania’s Insurance Commissioner. Ario also currently chairs the health insurance committee for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and has been elected as an officer for three years. In his time with the NAIC he has been a strong advocate of state-based regulation of insurance and has also streamlined the producer licensing process.

To obtain a producer’s license the Pennsylvania Insurance Department requires 24 hours of approved insurance pre-license credits in either Life & Health or Property & Casualty before taking the Pennsylvania exam with Thomson Prometric.
More information about the nomination may be found in Governor Rendell’s Press Release.