As the NAIC and the various states have geared up fully for the implementation of LTC Partnership policies throughout the country, ProSchools has sought and achieved certification for our long-term care course offering through ClearCert Compliance Solutions.  ClearCert is a third-party compliance solution for the long-term care education community, and to quote their site at ClearCert:

The Deficit Reduction Act specifies that insurance carriers, not state insurance commissioners, are accountable for validating that their producers comply with training requirements. The 2006 Model Act affirmed that carriers must document agent training, although state insurance departments are expected to develop detailed requirements. This placed long-term care insurance carriers into an unfamiliar role and introduced a new training paradigm. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Insurance, Long term care insurance, Long-Term Care

Good Morning, PIBbers!  The State of Oregon has legislated that all health benefit plans covering Oregonians must provide payment, coverage or reimbursement of at least $500 for a tobacco use cessation program for a person enrolled in the plan who is 15 years of age or older.  Enrolled Senate Bill 734, sponsored by Senator MORRISETTE; Senators BATES, MONNES ANDERSON and TELFER is effective January 1, 2010.  This is a great way to kick the habit and have someone else pay for it!  Read the rest of this entry »

As mentioned previously (click HERE for previous post), ProSchools has partnered with ClearCert Compliance in order to ensure that our LTC courses are fully-compliant with each individual long-term care insurer’s requirements regarding mandated training needs.  ProSchools is going to make sure that we are ClearCert compliant in each state we’re in so that our students have no concerns or issues while getting fully certified Long-Term Care insurance training.  Read the rest of this entry »

Hello Pibbers!  The life and health review session for February, 2010 is set.  We will be holding the review on February 23rd, 2010 from 10:00 am until approximately 4:00 pm at our Cedar Hills classroom location.  For directions to the classroom, click HERE.

There is no cost for currently enrolled ProSchools students; however the cost for non-ProSchools students is $95.00.  For those of you that are current ProSchools students, pre-registration is not required; just show up!  For those who wish to attend the session and are NOT ProSchools students, we welcome your participation and hopefully we’ll teach you a thing or two!  Please call 800-452-4879 to register!

The State of Oregon Insurance Division has announced that effective September 1, 2009 there is a new fee that will be required to be paid when submitting your initial individual insurance license application form.

In addition to the fees that have been historically required ($30 application fee + a $45 license fee), there is an additional fee of $47.25 that will pay for the federal and state criminal background check that is required to be performed before a license can be issued.    This fee must be included when you pay for the “other” required fees.  Read on for more! Read the rest of this entry »

One of the things that we pride ourselves at ProSchools is our ability to keep current with the changes that affect our students, and the changes that are happening in Washington are no exception.  Effective July 1, 2009, the state of Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) is making significant changes to the prelicense education mandates and rules.  If you would like to view the actual rule changes, click HERE for the text version of the legislation.  This information is critical to those prelicense students who are either currently enrolled in a ProSchools program or are planning on obtaining an insurance license in the near future.  This absolutely affects you if you are in Washington and are studying for your insurance license, so please read on for the changes! Read the rest of this entry »

Good afternoon PIBbers!  After much demand, ProSchools is going to be offering life and health prelicense reviews starting this coming Wednesday, April 15, 2009!  We will be doing live reviews in our Cedar Hills classroom, and the review will go from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm that Wednesday.  No reservations are necessary, just show up!  The review session is 100% free to enrolled ProSchools insurance students, and available for $99 for non-students. Read the rest of this entry »

ProSchools is proud to announce that we have been approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) to offer our acclaimed online prelicensing course to the residents of the great state of Illinois!  Home of the Chicago Bears, Cubs, White Sox, Bulls, Blackhawks, Fire, Rush, Storm, Machine and Sky (not to mention the Fighting Illini of the University of Illinois and the Wildcats of Northwestern University in the Big-10, and the SIU Salukis, (forgive me if I neglected to mention your favorite team) we are thrilled to be in Illinois with our industry-leading insurance prelicense programs! 

We are currently offering an introductory price in Illinois for our prelicense students, click here for the current course catalog and pricing structure.  We offer a multitude of ways to help you pass your Illinois insurance examination on the first try!  We are proud to hold the highest first-time pass rate in every state in which we operate and provide state-of-the-art support and service. 

Corporate partnership programs are available in the Land of Lincoln, and ProSchools is well-positioned to assist your corporate educational needs through a series of value added propositions only available to those companies who partner with ProSchools.  For a list of companies that are currently working with ProSchools, click HERE!  If you would like to speak with someone about becoming a ProSchools corporate partner, click HERE

We look forward to working with you in Illinois.  I have a personal connection with this wonderful state- I was born in Chicago (at Michael Reese hospital), did my schooling in Illinois, and am a HUGE Cubs and Bears fan!  So, if you need anything that we can provide, just let us know!

-Gary

Good afternoon, all.  Oregon’s insurance test content outline is changing effective as of March 1, 2009, and we here at the PIB wanted to make sure that you have all of these changes at hand and are ready to go for the test changes.  ProSchools has the changes made and will make sure that the online and print editions of the material reflect all of them!

First of all, the good news!  There are no new additions to the Property and Casualty exam- there are only deletions!  For the Life and Health exam, there are 3 very minor additions and a couple of areas that have been deleted from the test.  The percentages of each section on the content outline have changed as well, and we have detailed this information for you as well.  Read on for specific details! Read the rest of this entry »

We’re very excited to announce that the ProSchools Insurance Blog has been listed on LexisNexis Insurance Law Center’s Top 50 Blogs for Insurance for 2008!

ProSchools takes great pride in this honor. There are more than 2,500,000 insurance blogs in the blogosphere, with more than 39,000,000 hits on Google under the query “insurance blogs.”  We are thrilled that the Law Center has selected ProSchools’ insurance blog as one of the 50 best in the country.  To quote the site:

“The LexisNexis Insurance Law Center has selected its 2008 honorees for the Top 50 Blogs for Insurance. Congratulations to all the honorees!

These blogsites contain some of the best writing out there on coverage, catastrophic loss, regulatory compliance, life insurance, health care and insurance issues in general. They contain a wealth of information for the insurance community with timely news items, practical information, expert analysis, frequent postings and helpful links to other sites.”

Thank you to LexisNexis and the Insurance Law Center.  The honor is greatly appreciated, and we will do all we can to make sure that we stay on the list for 2009!

-Gary Sternberg/Director of Insurance Programs

Click on the LexisNexis logo below for the link!