May 16, 2014:  Indiana's Insurance Commissioner, Stephen Robertson, issued Bulletin 207 on Tuesday, May 13 in an effort to clarify producer confusion regarding the timing of the new 3-hour ethics CE requirement, which became effective July 1, 2013.  Producers holding licenses with qualifications in Life, Health, Variable Life, and Variable Annuity ("Life and Health Producers") were required to complete 3 hours of CE related to ethical practices in the marketing and sale of life, health, or annuity insurance products to renew their producer licenses.

"The Department interprets the change to IC 27-1-15.7-2(a) to be inapplicable to the first renewal after July 1, 2013.  Stated differently, LIfe and Health Producers will NOT be required to obtain the ethics requirement until the first renewal period after July 1, 2014.  Life and Health Producers who do NOT complete 3 hours of ethics CE will NOT be able to renew their licenses after June 2014 even IF they have completed 24 hours of non-ethics CE.  This ethics CE requirement continues for every Life and Health Producer's renewal cycles after June 2014.

Insurance producers with qualifications in more than one line of authority are not required to complete MORE than 24 hours of CE credit to renew their licenses.  Life and Health Producers taking 3 hours of ethics as part of their Certified Financial Planner certification renewal will be considered compliant with this new CE requirement."

A.D. Banker & Company offers the following CE courses in Indiana:

• Avoiding E&O Claims
• Ethical Insurance Practices
• Ethics for Professionals
• Ethics in Business
• Ethics in the Senior Market
• Ethics: Delivering on the Promise

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May 5, 2014:  A.D. Banker & Company announces a statutory change in the Georgia Continuing Education requirement for insurance producers licensed fewer than 20 years.  This represents a change from the current requirement of 30 hours per biennium with 6 hours of ethics.

Effective for biennial license renewals on or after May 6, 2014, a minimum of 24 hours of continuing education is now required inclusive of 3 hours devoted specifically to the subject of ethics.  For resident licensees continually licensed for 20 years or longer, the minimum number of required CE hours is 20 (including 3 hours of ethics).

A.D. Banker & Company offers producers in Georgia a large selection of course topics that will meet this new requirement!  Continuing Education Courses are available in Classroom, Online, Self-Study and Live Webinars.  Other CE course topics include:  Anti- Money Laundering, Annuity Suitability, Adjuster, Long-Term Care Partnership, Ethics, Flood, Identity Theft, Insurance Fraud, Navigators, and many more.

2.  Ethics in the Senior Market (3 ethics credits)

3.  Professional Liability (3 PC credits) 

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Continuing Education Courses are available in Classroom, Online, Self-Study and Live Webinars.  Other CE course topics include:  Anti- Money Laundering, Annuity Suitability, Adjuster, Long-Term Care Partnership, Ethics, Flood, Identity Theft, Insurance Fraud, Navigators, and many more.

A.D. Banker & Company is excited to announce a full line-up of Webinar CE courses that will be available May 15, 2013.  These are attendance-based sessions (NO final exams).  Courses are led by insurance professionals with years of industry experience and can be attended from anywhere the internet is available. 

The following list of courses are available (check your state for specific credit categories and approval):

Life and Health Topics

·          4 Hour Annuity Suitability

 ·        California Suitability & Annuities

 ·        Colorado 5 hour LTCP Renewal

·         Disability Income Planning

·         Financial Planning Solutions

·         Health Insurance & the PPACA

·         Life Insurance Plans & Policies

·         Medicare

General Topics

·         Anti-Money Laundering

·         Cyber Liability

·         Identity Theft

·         Insurance Fraud

Property/Casualty Topics

·         P&C Risks and Catastrophes

Ethics Topics

·         Ethics: Avoiding E&O Pitfalls

·         Ethics: Delivering on the Promise

CE Webinars are currently approved in:  AK, AL, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NY, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WI, WV, WY.

A.D. Banker & Company, the national leader in classroom and online continuing education and insurance licensing, now has Classroom Equivalent Continuing Education courses for Texas. Classroom equivalent courses provide CE credits, but have the added convenience of not requiring students take an exam.

Producers in Texas must complete 30 hours of CE, with 50% of their hours being completed in a classroom or classroom equivalent course. Courses include:

• Life Insurance Plans & Policies
• Personal Lines
• Personal & Business Liability
• Auto & Homeowners Liability
• Anti-Money Laundering
• USA Patriot Act: Issues and Concerns
• Ethical Insurance Practices
• Ethics: Avoiding E & O Claims

For more than 30 years, prelicensing candidates have trusted A.D. Banker & Company to provide the information needed to pass state licensing exams. We cross-reference all courses with the exam provider content outline to assure candidates receive what they need to know, and our high quality learning design produces outstanding results for Life & Health, Property & Casualty, and Securities exams.

For more information, visit www.adbanker.com, or call us at 800.866.2468.

January 10, 2011 – A.D. Banker & Company adds new Ethics CE courses to library.

Two new self-study courses were added to the A.D. Banker & Company Continuing Education library.

• Ethics for the Life & Health Producer
• Ethics for the Property & Casualty Producer 

These courses in Ethics begins with history and philosophy.  Readers first define ethics, then learn about the development, theories and applications of an ethical value system and how important it is to base business decisions in the insurance industry on sound ethical principles of doing the right thing, every time.

These courses are currently approved in Kansas, but will be submitted to all states with an Ethics requirement in the upcoming months.

Visit us online at www.adbanker.com or contact us at 800.866.2468.