Producer Licensing Continuing Education

The current continuing education (CE) reporting period for West Virginia resident insurance producers began 7-1-2008 and ends 6-30-2010.  Any resident producer, whose original license date is prior to 7-1-2009, must comply with continuing education by 6-30-2010. 

Producers are required to complete 24-hours of approved continuing education; a minimum of 3 hours must be courses approved in Ethics.  Producers who sell solely thru telemarketing or sell only pre-need will be required to complete 6-hours of approved continuing education; a minimum of 3 hours must be courses approved in Ethics.  Note: Only courses which are categorized for Ethics and appear on Prometric’s website will satisfy the ethics compliance requirement. Having “ethics” in the title or content of an approved CE course does not in itself assure that the course has been categorized for Ethics.

NEW - House Bill 4557, passed by the WV Legislature in 2008 and effective June 6, 2008, allows for carryover of up to 6 hours of continuing education credit from one reporting period to another for those producers who must complete more than 6 hours of continuing education during a reporting period.   Hours, from the reporting period that ended 6-30-2008, that are in excess of 21 General credits and 3 Ethics credits (not to exceed a total of 6 hours), will be carried forward into the new reporting period and will be reflected on producer transcripts at Prometric’s website.  The hours carried over will be categorized as CARRY OVER and will not be considered to be either General or Ethics.  Producers will still be required to complete at least 3 hours of Ethics for the current biennium.

Resident producers whose original license date is 7-1-2009 or later will have the remainder of the current reporting period and the next full reporting period (7-1-2010 thru 6-30-2012) to comply with continuing education. 

License date information can be verified on the Insurance Commissioner’s website, www.wvinsurance.gov, by clicking on Quick Search, Insurance Agent. 

The West Virginia Offices of the Insurance Commissioner has contracted with Prometric to provide CE administrative services.   Prometric is responsible for provider approvals, course review and approvals, and producer record keeping of CE credits. Providers are required to report completed hours for producers to Prometric.  

Following are links to Prometric’s Web site for Producers and for Providers:

Agents/Producers -- Lookup CE Credits / Search for Approved CE Courses
http://www.prometric.com/CE/wvceprod.htm

CE Providers – Provider Packet – Information & Forms
http://www.prometric.com/CE/wvceprov.htm