Insurer required training for insurance producers that sell annuity products.

Regulation 187 requires insurers to set forth standards and procedures for recommendations to consumers with respect to both life insurance and annuity contracts. Insurance companies are responsible for ensuring that every producer recommending its life and annuity products is adequately trained to make the recommendation, however,Regulation 187 does not require the completion of specific training classes. WebCE is an Approved Provider Organization and, for annuity training, has a course based on the education standards recommended by the NAIC Suitability in Annuity Transactions and has received DFS approval for continuing education credit. A producer completing this course will earn continuing education credit toward the renewal of their insurance license and may satisfy the annuity training requirements of the insurance companies and therefore NY Regulation 187. It is the responsibility of the producer to know the annuity training requirements of the insurance company with whom he or she works.

Additional Information

State required training for insurance producers, adjusters, and personal lines producers that sell flood insurance products.

One-Time Training
Hours: 3
Frequency: One-time training must be complete prior to selling flood insurance products.

Additional Information

• Producers: Every 2 years, based on the licensee’s date of birth in odd- or even-numbered years. Licensees born in an even-numbered year are required to complete their CE in even-numbered years. Licensees born in an odd-numbered year are required to complete their CE in odd-numbered years.
• Public Adjusters: The license term ends on 12/31 of even-numbered years.

Excess CE hours are not allowed to be carried forward to the next 2-year license term.

A licensee cannot ever repeat a course for credit.

Self-study online or paper-book.

Self-Study Requirements: Students should read the course material prior to taking the final exam.

Producers and Public Adjusters must complete their CE requirement by taking courses approved only in the line of authority licensed for. Multi-licensed producers must complete 15 hours for each line licensed.

The final exam is closed book, and no outside information may be used to complete the exam. If the final exam is not passed on the first attempt, students have an unlimited number of retakes.

Exam Proctor Requirements: Closed-book exams must be monitored by a NY Approved Monitor.
Monitor Information: Upon renewal of the monitor approval every 2 years (November 30th of every odd year), renewing monitors will not need to send monitor approval documents to WebCE. WebCE receives the renewed information directly from the state. For monitors that are newly approved during the approval term, the monitor approval information will need to be faxed or emailed into WebCE before the student can take the final exam. Monitors not of file with WebCE will not be allowed to proctor a WebCE exam.

Self-Study Final Exam: 70%

WebCE provides online, printable certificates of completion. Certificates of completion are available to print online immediately after the final exam is passed. Producers are required to maintain the original certificate of completion in his or her files.

Next-Day Reporting: WebCE reports CE credits to the New York DOFS every business day.

Non-resident Public Adjusters that do not have a continuing education requirement in their home state must complete the New York Public Adjuster CE requirements.

• Non-resident producers in good standing with their home state.
• Licensees called to active military duty during the term of their license.
• There is no CE requirement for the renewal of Independent Adjuster, Bail Bond, Mortgage Guarantee, or Re-insurance Intermediary licenses.