• Continuing education is due annually on or before the renewal date of the license. Agents must complete 8 hours of continuing education annually.
  
• Agents with dual licenses; life, disability and multiple lines, must complete 10 hours of continuing education annually.
  
  Life--------------------------------------------------------- 8 hrs
  Accident/Health/Sickness------------------------------ 8 hrs
  (This line of authority replaces Disability)
  Life and Accident/Health/Sickness------------------- 8 hrs
  Property/Casualty--------------------------------------- 8 hrs (This line replaces Multi-Line)
  Personal Lines------------------------------------------- 8 hrs
  Life & Property/Casualty----------------------------- 10 hrs
  Accident/Health/Sickness & Property/Casualty - 10 hrs
  Life, Accident/Health/Sickness & Property/Casualty--- 10 hrs
  Personal Lines & Life--------------------------------- 10 hrs
  Personal Lines & Accident/Health/Sickness-------10 hrs
  
  
• ALL AGENTS WHO SELL ANNUITY PRODUCTS: Must Complete the RULE 82, “Suitability In Annuity Transactions by July 15, 2010. NO ONE WHO SELLS ANNUITY PRODUCTS IS EXEMPT.
  
  
• Title Agent Requirements: Every Title Insurance Agent must complete 6 hours per year, including 1 hour of Ethics. A Title Agent can carry over the number of hours needed for the next year’s requirement. Any hours above the hours needed for the next requirement will be lost, however the 1 hour of Ethics hour does not carry over.

• Agents must complete 1 hour in Ethics.
• Agents who sell Annuities must complete a 4 Hours approved Annuity Course.
  
• Agents who are writing, sell, solicit or negotiate Long Term Care Insurance must complete an 8 hour Long Term Care Education required by your insurance carrier by July 1, 2009. An additional 4 hours of Long Term Care Education is due every 24 months. If you complete the initial Long Term Care course, you will receive 9 hours of Continuing Education as well as satisfying your insurance carrier.
• All Arkansas licensed Resident Insurance Producers who sell Federal Flood Insurance policies shall be required to complete a one time 3 hour requirement on flood insurance. If you complete this course you will receive 8 hours of Continuing Education as well as satisfying the FEMA requirement.

• Agents Continuing Education is due Annually on or before the renewal date of the license.

• Excess hours may be carried over to the next compliance period, except for Ethics they may NOT be carried forward.

• Courses may not be taken once in a 2 year period.

• Continuing education courses may be either self-study or classroom

• If the course taken is self-study, the Agent must pass a monitored examination.
• If the course taken is a classroom course, there is no examination.
• All correspondence courses must have a sealed written exam which the completion of the exam must be Monitored by a Proctor. Proctors must provide an affidavit on appendix G which must be completed and returned to the continuing education provider, prior to the provider reporting the completed hours to the Department.
• Proctors must be a disinterested third party and shall not serve for examinations of: family members or relatives or dependents, employers or supervisors, employees or subordinates, partners or joint ventures or co-owners, current or former teachers or pupils, neighbors or personal friends or significant others, or for anyone in whom the proctor has an economic or other interest in assuring the successful outcome of the examination.

Appendix H & Monitor Affidavit are e-mailed to the
Arkansas Department of Insurance.