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Edition 5, Oct. 27, 2011 (Periodically)


JLY Public Relations: Sycamore Press C.E.

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For Insurance Licensees
   CA Dept of Insurance C.E. Changes
  Include More Special Requirements


The CA Dept of Insurance continues to make sweeping changes to its licensing program, including c.e. requirements.

Recently, it split the property & casualty license into two separate licenses, as it did previously with Life & Health.

Further, P&C licensees who wish to sell Health Insurance must qualify for and obtain a separate Health license (no grandfathering), even though they have sold Health Insurance under the old rules.

We now have the Limited Auto license for those who are selling only personal auto insurance; and there's the older license -- Personal Lines -- for sellers of homeowners/renters/earthquake insurance and/or personal auto insurance.

In the past several years, the requirements have evolved to include several special/designated courses, such as:

* Anti-Money Laundering (Life Agents, 3 credit-hours)
* Long-Term Care (Life Agents, 8 credit-hours each two-year licensing cycle, if you plan to sell LTC Insurance)
* 8-Hours Annuities Training (Life Agents, one-time in initial two-year licensing cycle, if you plan to sell Annuities)
* 4-Hours Annuities Training (Life Agents, every two years following 8-Hours Annuities, two-year cycle, if you plan to continue selling Annuities)
* Earthquake Insurance (Property-Casualty, Personal Lines, 2 credit-hours, one-time for PC & PL Agents-Brokers who wish to sell Earthquake Insurance)
* Home Valuation (Property-Casualty, Personal Line, 3 credit-hours, one-time prior to doing any homeowner's valuation).
* Flood Insurance (PC & PL Agents-Brokers who wish to sell Flood Insurance, 3-credit hours, one-time).

These are the ones I know about to date; more may be coming. My company, JLY-PR: Sycamore Press offers CA-CDI-Approved Special/Designated Courses in:

* Ethics (5 Hours)
* Long-Term Care;
* 8-Hours Annuities Training
* 4-Hours Annuities Training.

If I don't currently offer the course you need, I am willing to help you find it. In the meantime, I'll be doing all I can to get the rest of the required special courses approved for this school, so you can get everything at one stop -- Here!


-- Jim Young

       OR -- CALL ME AT 619-244-1014. I WANT TO HELP YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED!
Winner's Minute
    A Key to Organizational Increase

    Resist the Enemy -- Complacency

                                                    by Mac Hammond


One of the greatest challenges a business will ever face comes once it has experienced some success. It is then that one of the great enemies of growth must be defeated. That enemy is complacency.

It isn't incompetence that flattens an organization's growth curve. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who lose momentum. This is what Paul was warning against when he said, "Keep pressing toward the mark of the high calling."

So let me ask you, "Are you pressing higher or resting on your laurels?"

Source: Winner's Way Broadcast produced by Mac Hammond Ministries
(Minneapolis: Mac Hammond Ministries, 2003)
Copyright 2010. Mac Hammond Ministries, All rights reserved.
Used by permission.

MAC HAMMOND MINISTRIES, 9201 75th Avenue North, Brooklyn Park, MN 55428
Website: www.winnersminute.org