Arkansas Continuing Education Requirements

Any non-exempt persons licensed as producers shall, biennially on or before their birthdays, complete a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours of continuing education instruction, which must include at least three (3) hours of ethics in each two year license renewal cycle, if the individual is licensed to sell:

• Life insurance;
• Accident and health or sickness insurance;
• Property insurance;
• Casualty insurance;
• Variable products insurance; or
• Personal lines insurance.

Any person who holds an adjuster license shall satisfactorily complete a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours of continuing education , which must include three (3) hours of ethics in each two year license renewal cycle. This does not apply to:

• An adjuster that is licensed in another state;
• The licensing state requires continuing education; and
• The adjuster has satisfied the continuing education requirements of the licensing state.

If a person is a non-exempt producer required to obtain continuing education and a licensed adjuster, that person shall be required to meet the continuing education requirements of both licenses.

The continuing education requirements in this section do not apply to title insurance agents.

How to Renew Your License in Arkansas

Arkansas uses the State Based System (SBS) to more efficiently process license applications, renewals, educations requirements, and inquiries.

To renew your license online, simply click on this link: INSERT LINK and select RENEW NOW.

Arkansas Continuing Education Course Overview

We've designed our courses to be online and are broken into small "units" to make studying easier and stress-free. Each of our courses consist of several units of study with a quiz at the end of each unit. To progress from one unit to the next, you must pass the quiz by obtaining a score 70% or better. If you fail the quiz, don't worry as the course takes you back to the unit for review and a retake the unit quiz. This process is repeated until you pass the unit quiz.

During the quiz, you cannot back up to find the answer in the study materials. However, you can use your own personal notes but you may not use any other person's notes or help during a quiz.

When you complete the quiz, the course shows you your answer, the correct answer and an explanation of the correct answer. The unit quiz is a monitoring tool used to track your time studying the unit and responses to the questions.

Upon successful completion of the online portion of the course, the course will upload a final exam. The final exam is proctored and you may not use your notes. No need to worry, if you do not achieve a passing score the first time around, the system will automatically upload a second exam. Additional informaiton on who can be a proctor is below.

Upon successful completion of the course, we will email you a certificate of completion and report the hours to the Arkansas Insurance Department the next business day.

Who can be a proctor?

The proctor must be a disinterested third-party. An acceptable proctor is someone with no conflict of interest. Relatives, spouses, and co-workers are not acceptable proctors. Acceptable proctors may include librarians, CPAs, attorneys, and other professionally licensed insurance producers or adjusters.

Contacting the State

Additional information and answers to many licensing questions can found via the Arkansas Insurance Department

• Website: http://insurance.arkansas.gov/license.htm
• Phone: (501) 371-2750
• Email: insurance.license@arkansas.gov