OH Insurance Continuing Education Requirements

• All Licenses

  • Effective January 1, 2011, Ohio resident insurance agents will need to comply with Ohio’s new continuing education (CE) laws. The key changes scheduled to go into effect at that time are:

  • Each individual issued an Ohio resident insurance agent license will be required to complete a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours of CE, every two (2) years, before they renew their license.
  • During the CE compliance period, each agent will be required to take at least three (3) hours of ethics training. Credit hours associated with ethics courses taken will be applied toward an agent’s 24-hour CE requirement.

• Long Term Care -LTC

  • Agents wishing to sell Long Term Care are required to take a one time only 8 hour Department of Insurance certified course
  • Each license term thereafter each agent must complete a 4 hour Long Term Care Partnership CE course that is approved by the department.

• Flood Insurance Training

  • An insurance producer who sells flood insurance may satisfy the minimum training and education requirements by completing a 3-hour course related to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

• CE completions are submitted electronically the next business day after a passing completion is acquired.

• Agents having a renewal date of 12/31/2010 will have until the last day of their birth month to renew their license. Those with birthdates in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May and June 2011 will have a renewal date of 06/30/2011. After the 2011 renewal cycle agents will have until the last day of their birth month every two years to renew their license.
• Agents having a renewal date of 12/31/2011 will need to renew their license by the last day of their birth month in 2012. Thereafter renewals will then be at the end of their birth month every two years.
• Agents with licenses issured on or after 01/01/2010 will need to renew their license at the end of their birth month in the following year as long as the time frame does not excede 29 months from the date the license was issued.

• Online courses
• Independent Self-study
• Classroom Study

• Final exams do not need to be monitored and are closed book.

• CE credits may not be carried over from one term to another.

• Courses may not be taken more than once in each renewal period.

• Certificates of completion are available as soon as a course is completed with a passing grade. Certificates should be printed and kept on file for 3 years.

Third Party Contact: Sircon
Phone: 877-876-4430
Fax: 404-656-0874

Web Site:Sircon

(614) 644-2658 or (800) 532-2170
(614) 644-3475

Email: licensing@insurance.ohio.gov

Mailing Address:
Ohio Department of Insurance
50 W. Town Street - Third Floor Suite 300
Columbus, OH 43215


Web site: Ohio Department of Insurance