Continuing Education

Insurance Claims Adjusters and Public Adjusters need a deep understanding of the homeowner policy to determine what’s covered and what’s not.  Insurance Agents and CSRs also benefit from knowing how to navigate the contract to know when additional policies or endorsements are needed to protect their customers' financial interests.  This course explores these helpful concepts.What the homeowners’ policy is designed to cover and whyHow to navigate the policy contract to find exclusions a..

Insurance Claims Adjusters and Public Adjusters need a deep understanding of the homeowner policy to determine what’s covered and what’s not.  Insurance Agents and CSRs also benefit from knowing how to navigate the contract to know when additional policies or endorsements are needed to protect their customers' financial interests.  This course explores these helpful concepts.What the homeowners’ policy is designed to cover and whyHow to navigate the policy contract to find exclusions a..

This class is available for all insurance agents for CE credit, but was written especially for Commercial Lines Agents and Customer Service Reps who specialize or want to specialize in serving the small business market in their community.  The purpose of this class is to familiarize you with the many different types of insurance products that are available for this market.  As a Florida General Lines Agent or CSR, you are licensed to provide all of the products covered in this c..

This course covers the changing landscape of Health Care over the last several years. The online course consists of 5 areas of study including the background, history, and legislation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), implementation timeline – with a brief overview of the Health Care Law, plans available and enrollment procedures, the cost to taxpayers and laws affecting small businesses, and how agents can be involved through training and resources. If the law is repeal..

This course covers the changing landscape of Health Care over the last several years. The online course consists of 5 areas of study including the background, history, and legislation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), implementation timeline – with a brief overview of the Health Care Law, plans available and enrollment procedures, the cost to taxpayers and laws affecting small businesses, and how agents can be involved through training and resources. If the law is repeal..

COVID-19 claims have raised coverage issues that will probably ultimately resolved through legislation and court decisions. Coverages affected include property, general liability and workers compensation.  The coverage causing the biggest uproar from unhappy insureds is Business Interruption. Questions have also arisen on employee injuries usually insured under a workers compensation policy.  This issue has come to the fore with the exposure of medical personnel to ..

COVID-19 claims have raised coverage issues that will probably ultimately resolved through legislation and court decisions. Coverages affected include property, general liability and workers compensation.  The coverage causing the biggest uproar from unhappy insureds is Business Interruption. Questions have also arisen on employee injuries usually insured under a workers compensation policy.  This issue has come to the fore with the exposure of medical personnel to the virus..

This class satisfies the requirement that 2-14, 2-15, and 2-40 Agents complete a Law and Ethics Update course every 2 years, which is specific to the license held by the licensee and covers industry law updates, premium discounts, ethics, disciplinary trends, industry trends, and suitability of insurance products.  This online course is divided into 4 areas of study, including Regulatory Awareness, Insurance Laws and Updates, Ethical Requirements and Disciplinary and Industry Trends) with f..

This class satisfies the requirement that Agents complete a Law and Ethics Update course every 2 years, which is specific to the license held by the licensee and covers industry law updates, premium discounts, ethics, disciplinary trends, industry trends, and suitability of insurance products.  This 2-20 license-group online course is divided into 7 areas of study: Jurisdiction of duties and responsibilities, Licensing requirements, Florida statues, Department communication and Guaranty ass..

The Surplus Lines Agent License (1-20) allows the licensee to handle the placement of insurance coverages with unauthorized insurers and to place such coverages with authorized insurers as to which the licensee is not licensed as an agent. The Surplus Lines CE Course provides an overview of surplus lines insurance, the regulatory processes, distribution systems, unauthorized insurance entities and details on the Florida Surplus Lines Service Office (FSLSO), Rules of Practice and the Florida Stat..

This 4-hour Continuing Education course is entitled "Long-Term Care NAIC 4-hour Refresher Class: Partnership Programs, LTC Insurance and LTC Services." This class is written to satisfy the NAIC requirement for ongoing insurance agent training on long-term care. The training consists of topics related to long-term care insurance, long-term care services, state partnership programs, and available long-term care providers.  In addition, this course will provide an in-depth discussion of tr..

This course is designed as a continuing education course especially beneficial for 2-15 and 2-40 licensed agents, but may be taken by all agents and adjusters (other than 3-20 public adjusters). Unit 1 covers most Health Insurance Types of Policies and Unit 2 covers associated Policy Provisions. This course is an Immediate Level continuing education course and has been approved by the Department of Financial Services for 7 hours of CE credit. This course includes lessons in these areas of stu..

Types and rates of health care insurance coverage have changed considerably in the last 50 - 60 years.  From the 1960s through the 1980s, the principal type of group health insurance was indemnity insurance. Its benefit design required covered individuals to pay a portion of provider billed charges after meeting an annual deductible. From the 1980s forward, indemnity coverage was replaced by managed care.  Health care providers (physicians and hospitals, etc.) were required to accep..

This 4 hour Continuing Education course is entitled "Consumer Protections for Annuity and Life Insurance Transactions". In this class, you will learn about the Florida and Federal laws that deal with annuity and life insurance transactions.  Most importantly, you will learn what Agents must do in order to protect consumers. In this class, we trace the legislative history of consumer protection for annuity purchases.  In Florida, it began with protecting our most vulnerable citizens: Se..

This course covers the changing landscape of Health Care over the last several years. The online course consists of 5 areas of study including the background, history, and legislation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), implementation timeline – with a brief overview of the Health Care Law, plans available and enrollment procedures, the cost to taxpayers and laws affecting small businesses, and how agents can be involved through training and resources. If the law is repeal..