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Personal Lines
- Provider
- Pearson VUE
- Format
- Multiple-choice examination with general and Alaska portions; both portions must be passed.
- Exam questions
- 75 scored plus 5 pretest general questions; 49 scored plus 5 pretest Alaska questions.
- Time limit
- General: 1 hour 30 minutes; Alaska: 1 hour.
- Passing score
- Scaled passing score 70.
Examination outline
TYPES OF PROPERTY POLICIES
- Homeowners
- HO-2
- HO-3
- HO-4
- HO-5
- HO-6
- HO-8
- Dwelling policies
- DP-1
- DP-2
- DP-3
- Inland marine
- Personal Articles floaters
- National Flood Insurance Program
- Others
- Earthquake
- Mobile Homes
- Watercraft
- Windstorm
TYPES OF CASUALTY POLICIES
- Automobile: personal auto
- Liability
- Bodily Injury
- Property Damage
- Split Limits
- Combined Single Limit
- Medical Payments
- Physical Damage (collision; other than collision; specified perils)
- Uninsured motorists
- Underinsured motorists
- Who is an insured
- Types of Auto
- Owned
- Non-owned
- Hired
- Temporary Substitute
- Newly Acquired Autos
- Transportation Expense and Rental Reimbursement Expense
- Exclusions
- Umbrella/Excess liability
PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE TERMS AND RELATED CONCEPTS
- Insurance
- Law of Large Numbers
- Insurable interest
- Risk
- Pure vs. Speculative Risk
- Hazard
- Moral
- Morale
- Physical
- Peril
- Loss
- Direct
- Indirect
- Loss Valuation
- Actual cash value
- Replacement cost
- Market value
- Stated value
- Salvage value
- Proximate cause
- Deductible
- Indemnity
- Limits of liability
- Coinsurance/Insurance to value
- Occurrence
- Cancellation
- Nonrenewal
- Vacancy and unoccupancy
- Liability
- Absolute
- Strict
- Vicarious
- Negligence
- Binder
- Endorsements
- Blanket vs. Specific
- Burglary, Robbery, Theft, and Mysterious Disappearance
- Warranties
- Representations
- Concealment
- Deposit Premium/Audit
- Certificate of Insurance
- Damages
- Compensatory
- General
- Special
- Punitive
- Compliance with Provisions of Fair Credit Reporting Act
PROPERTY AND CASUALTY POLICY PROVISIONS AND CONTRACT LAW
- Declarations
- Insuring agreement
- Conditions
- Exclusions
- Definition of the insured
- Duties of the insured after a loss
- Obligations of the insurance company
- Mortgagee rights
- Proof of loss
- Notice of claim
- Appraisal
- Other Insurance Provision
- Subrogation
- Elements of a contract
- Sources of underwriting information
- Fair Credit Reporting Act
- Privacy Protection (Gramm Leach Bliley)
- Policy Application
- Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA)
- Cancellation and nonrenewal provisions
- Supplementary payments
- Loss settlement provisions including consent to settle a loss
- Territory
ALASKA LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS COMMON TO LIFE, HEALTH (ACCIDENT AND HEALTH), PROPERTY, CASUALTY AND PERSONAL LINES INSURANCE
- Director of Insurance
- Broad powers
- Adoption of regulations
- Examination of records
- Notice and hearing
- Penalties
- Definitions
- Admitted (authorized) and nonadmitted companies
- Domestic, foreign, and alien
- Stock and mutual
- Premiums
- Transacting insurance
- Certificate of Authority
- Licensing
- License required
- Insurance producer
- Managing general agent
- Surplus lines broker
- Independent adjusters
- Firm licenses
- Compliance Officer (Designated Responsible Producer)
- Resident
- Nonresident licensees
- Exceptions
- Producer appointments
- Maintenance of license
- Renewal
- Denial, Nonrenewal, Suspension or Revocation
- Continuing education
- Marketing Practices
- Unfair practices
- Unfair claims methods and practices
- Rebating
- Twisting
- Misrepresentation
- Defamation
- Unfair discrimination
- Boycott, coercion, and intimidation
- Premium financing
- Fiduciary responsibilities
- Compensation of licensees
- Required records and record retention
- Advertising
- Controlled business
- Duty to fraudeluent claims/Immunity from reporting fraudulent claims
- Alaska Insurance Guaranty Association
ALASKA LAWS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS PERTINENT TO PROPERTY AND CASUALTY PERSONAL LINES INSURANCE ONLY
- Definitions
- Surety insurance
- Surplus lines insurance
- Marine insurance
- Nonpayment of premium
- Personal auto insurance
- Personal insurance
- Binders
- Renewal, nonrenewal, and cancellation
- Civil Rule 82
- Automobile insurance
- Financial responsibility
- Definition of financial responsibility
- Persons required to show proof
- Provisions
- Required minimum limits
- Uninsured and underinsured motorists coverage
- Rental car physical damage
- Named driver exclusion
- Automobile assigned risk
- Transportation network company/rideshare
Examination sources
- Alaska Insurance Examination Content Outlines, effective March 3, 2025
Header, effective date
- Alaska Insurance Licensing Candidate Handbook, September 2023
Page 12, format and both content portions
- Alaska Insurance Examination Content Outlines, effective March 3, 2025
S10, general section I
- Alaska Insurance Examination Content Outlines, effective March 3, 2025
S10, general section II
- Alaska Insurance Examination Content Outlines, effective March 3, 2025
S10, general section III
- Alaska Insurance Examination Content Outlines, effective March 3, 2025
S10, general section IV
- Alaska Insurance Examination Content Outlines, effective March 3, 2025
S11, state portion identity
- Alaska Insurance Examination Content Outlines, effective March 3, 2025
S11, state section I
- Alaska Insurance Examination Content Outlines, effective March 3, 2025
S11, state section II
- Alaska Insurance Licensing Candidate Handbook, September 2023
Page 12, Content outlines, format and two parts
- Alaska Insurance Examination Content Outlines, effective March 3, 2025
Page S10, General Personal Lines scored questions
- Alaska Insurance Examination Content Outlines, effective March 3, 2025
Page S11, Alaska Personal Lines scored questions
- Alaska Insurance Licensing Candidate Handbook, September 2023
Page 10, Scaled score
- Alaska Insurance Licensing Candidate Handbook, September 2023
Back cover, code 55
- Alaska Insurance Licensing Candidate Handbook, September 2023
Page 9, retaking the exam
- Alaska Insurance Examination Content Outlines, effective March 3, 2025
Header, outline effective date
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