Roster Fees

A roster fee of $1.50 per CE hour is required to process course completion hours in West Virginia and will be added to the order upon checkout.

Nonresident CE Requirements

Annuity Training Requirements

• Before selling, soliciting, or negotiating annuity products in West Virginia producers must complete a one-time annuity training course approved for at least 4 hours. Nonresidents who satisfy the training requirements of another state that are similar to West Virginia’s law will be deemed compliant for West Virginia’s requirement.

Long-Term Care (LTC) Insurance

• Nonresident producer’s may take an 8 hour NAIC course approved for use in any licensed state.

License Term

• The license expiration date is the last day of the producer’s birth month every two years. To view the birth month conversion chart click here.

• The CE compliance period is every two years ending on the license expiration date. 

CE Subject Requirements

• Category Restrictions: Of the 24-hour CE requirement, 3 hours must be in ethics.

• Course Presentation: Online and correspondence self study

• Study Requirements: Student should read the course material prior to taking the final exam.

Final Exam Requirements

• Exam proctor requirements: Self-study final exams are required to be monitored by a disinterested third party (i.e., someone with no business or family relationship to the student).

• Exam rules: The final exam is closed book and must be passed with a grade of 70 percent or higher to receive credit. Students have unlimited retakes.

CE Carryover Allowance

Up to 6 hours may be carried over to the next reporting period for those who must complete more than 6 hours of CE during a reporting period. Excess ethics credits are counted as general credits when carried over. Producers are required to complete at least 3 hours of ethics for every compliance term.

Course Repetition Rules

A course may not be taken for credit more than once within a 2-year license term.

Certificate of Completion

Certificates will be available to print online immediately after a final exam is passed. Producers keep the original certificates of completion in his or her files.

CE Completion Reporting

Course completions are submitted to Sircon every business day.

License Renewal Process

Renewal notices for individual resident producers and adjusters are mailed 60 days prior to the expiration date of the license to the address on record with the West Virginia Insurance Commissioner’s office. Renewals may be online at www.nipr.com or by paper. If a license is renewed online through NIPR, do not send a paper renewal.

Online license print is available from the Web site at www.wvinsurance.gov. License cards are no longer printed and mailed from WVOIC.

Nonresident adjusters who qualified for a license by taking the WV adjuster exam cannot renew online; they must submit the paper renewal form and check.

CE Exemptions

The following individuals are exempt from CE requirements:

• Individuals licensed only for limited lines credit

• A newly licensed individual who received a license on or after July 1 of the second year of a biennium (exempt for the first reporting period)

• Individuals holding limited lines licenses for which an exam is not required

• Individuals holding any limited or restricted license that the commissioner may declare exempt

• Adjusters

• Nonresidents