TN Insurance Continuing Education Requirements

• Insurance Producers

  • Must satisfactorily complete twenty-four (24) credit hours of study in approved courses, programs of instruction or seminars in conjunction with the license renewal cycle. Three (3) of the hours must be in ethics.

• Crop Adjusters

  • An individual who holds a multi-peril crop adjuster license shall satisfactorily complete a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours of continuing education courses, including ethics, reported on a biennial basis in conjunction with the license renewal cycle. The education required shall be in addition to any other continuing education requirements required for other professional licenses held by the individuals licensed.

• Public Adjusters

  • Must satisfactorily complete a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours of continuing education courses, including ethics, in conjunction with the license renewal cycle. The education required shall be in addition to any other continuing education requirements for other professional licenses held by the individual.

• Long Term Care Training

  • Effective July, 2008, previously licensed producers may continue to sell long term care products, but must complete a one-time training course by or before June 30, 2009 and ongoing training every 24 months thereafter.
  • Those who were not licensed producers as of 7/1/08 must obtain the initial course before beginning to sell long term care insurance products. The one-time training shall be no less than eight (8) hours and the ongoing training shall be no less than four (4) hours.

• Flood Insurance Training

  • Insurance Producers with Property/Casualty Lines of Authority
    • Shall take a one-time 3 hour course consisting of the minimum training requirements, and basic flood education, or such later requirements as are published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

• Suitability in Annuity Transactions For Life Insurance Producers Selling Annuities

  • Life Insurance Producers
    • Shall complete a onetime four (4) credit training course approved by the department of commerce and insurance and provided by the department of commerce and insurance-approved education provider.

• Insurance Producers
  • Who has been continuously licensed since January 1, 1994
• Public Adjuster
  • Licensees not licensed for one (1) full year
  • Nonresident public adjusters who have met the continuing education requirement in their home state.
• Long Term Care/Partnership
  • Producers who are exempt from general continuing education requirements (those who have been licensed continuously since January 1, 1994) are also exempt from the four (4) hour ongoing courses.
• Flood Insurance Training
  • Those individuals who can show proof of having completed such a course after January 1, 2008 may be exempt from this requirement.

License term is every two years on the last day of the licensed agents birth date.

• Online courses
• Independent Self-study
• Classroom Study

• Non-Monitored Open Book Exam
• Must answer at least 70% of the questions correct to pass.

To get your certificate of completion, log in to our website using your username and password. Then, look at the menu on the left and find "Course History." Your course history will list the courses you passed or failed. If you passed a course, you'll see a "Print certificate" button on the right, allowing you to print your certificate for your records.

We report your credits through SBS, a state-approved third party vendor, within one business day (except holidays, reporting will be done on next business day). The department receives the credits from SBS and recognizes the date you passed/completed the exam as the date of completion. It is not based upon the day we report the hours to them.

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

Up to 12 CE credits can be carried over. Carryover Ethics credits will only be counted as general credits and not extra ethics credits.

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Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance

Agent Licensing
Phone: 888-416-0868
Email: ce.agent.licensing@tn.gov

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