Alaska Insurance License Requirements

Alaska does not require candidates complete pre-licensing education. However, we recommend all candidates complete a course in order to gain the foundational knowledge necessary to pass the required insurance licensing exam. Alaska offers licensing in the following lines of authority: 

• Life only
• Health Only
• Property & Casualty
• Personal lines 

Once you choose which line of authority you want to test for, you can register for your exam. Registration must be completed online on Pearson Vue website: www.pearsonvue.com/ak/insurance.

Whether you choose to take the exam online through OnVUE or in person at a Pearson testing center, the exam fee is $89. Candidates may take up to two exams during one session for the single exam fee. However, you must pay this fee for any retakes so it's important to pass the first time to reduce your licensing costs!

If you plan on taking the exam online, you must make sure your computer meets the https://home.pearsonvue.com/ak/insurance/onvue>compatibility requirements. If your computer is not compatible with the online software, you will need to schedule your examination at a Pearson Vue test center.

Also note that candidates will be allowed four OnVUE attempts per exam. Candidates who fail must wait seven days to retest after the first exam attempt and 14 days to retest after the second attempt.

4. Passing the Alaska Insurance Licensing Exam

On the test day, make sure you bring two forms of signed identification and arrive 30 minutes before your scheduled exam time.

The Life, Health, Property, and Casualty exams are all 110 questions and you're allotted 2 hours and 15 minutes to complete the exams. The Personal Lines exam consists of 140 questions and you're allotted 2 hours and 30 minutes to complete the exam. You must score a 70% or higher to pass. 

With XCEL's proven, 3-Part Training Program, you'll be exam day ready: 

1. Build a strong foundation of knowledge with the pre-licensing education course
2. Focus on highly-tested exam content with our exam prep review course
3. Test your knowledge and ensure retention with our exam simulators

• All resident candidates taking an insurance examination for the first time must be fingerprinted. 
• Get fingerprinted at an approved vendor. 
• All fingerprints should be submitted on a standard FD-258 FBI fingerprint form 
• Attach fingerprint card and fee with license application. 
• Fingerprint Fee: $48.25 

• Submit your license application electronically through NIPR
• Pay the $75 application fee
• NIPR verifies exams prior to allowing submission of an application.

Name: Alaska Division of Insurance Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development
Phone: 907-465-2515
Website: https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/ins/
Address: 333 Willoughby Ave, 9th Floor
PO Box 110805
Juneau, AK 99811-0805

XCEL Solutions strives to provide the latest information to help you meet your Alaska insurance continuing education requirements. However, we recommend you verify with your state agency to ensure accuracy as all information is subject to change without notice. 

Insurance producers are required to renew their license by the last day of their birth month every two years. To renew your Alaska insurance license, complete your continuing education requirements first, then visit LicenseHub through NIPR to fill out your renewal application and pay the $75 fee. 

Licensees renewing a Property, Casualty, Personal Lines, Accident & Health, Life or Variable Products license are required to complete 24 hours of approved continuing education before submitting their renewal application. Three of those hours must be in approved ethics courses, and no more than eight hours can be in management, marketing, or sales content. 

Insurance agents can carry over up to eight excess hours into the next renewal period, though management, marketing, and sales credits cannot carry over. 

You can satisfy Alaska's LTC training requirements if you have completed the training requirements in another state.

Life or Variably Annuity licensees must complete an approved one-time 4-hour Annuity Suitability course before selling, soliciting, or negotiating annuity products. Resident and non-resident agents may complete these training requirements in any state with laws substantially similar to Alaska.

The course must include the following topics:

• Types of and various classifications of annuities
• Identification of the parties to an annuity
• How fixed, variable, and indexed annuity contract provisions affect the consumer
• Primary uses of an annuity
• Sales practices, replacement, and disclosure requirements that are consistent with 2 AAC 26.750 - 3AA 26.825

• Property and Casualty or Personal Lines licensees must complete an approved one-time 3-hour National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) course by the end of their first renewal period if they plan to sell, solicit, or negotiate Flood insurance.
• The National Flood Insurance Program course credits count towards the agent's 24-hour CE requirement.

XCEL does report completed CE courses to your state agency

• Students must provide their National Producer Number (NPN) to report on course completion.
• $1.50 per credit hour is required to report course completions to your state.
• Course completions are reported within one business day.

Resident and nonresident license renewal applications are processed through NIPR. A $75 renewal fee is required. Agents with a continuing education requirement must obtain all required credits prior to their license expiration date. An agent will not be eligible to renew their insurance license(s) until they have satisfied their continuing education requirement.

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Alaska Division of Insurance
https://www.commerce,alaska.gov
907-465-2515
[email protected]
P.O. 110805, Juneau, AK 99811-0805