Continuing Insurance Education Reminder Notice
All sponsors or instructors are required by South Carolina Code of Regulations at 69.50 IV (H) to read the entire contents of this reminder notice at the beginning of each continuing education class session. The regulation requires all correspondence course sponsors to include this notice in all correspondence continuing education course material (12 pt. Font Bold):
The biennial compliance deadline for complying with continuing education in South Carolina is May 1, 2008. Anyone not completing 24 hours with a minimum of 3 hours of ethics or paying the biennial recordkeeping fee to Prometric, Continuing Education Administrator, by May 1, 2008 will have his or her license nonrenewed. Do not mail the CE recordkeeping fee to the Department of Insurance.
Licensed insurance agents who have completed the 40-hour prelicensing education course work are required to pay the continuing education recordkeeping fee to Prometric, CE Administrator, by May 1, 2008 or they will have their license nonrenewed.
Multi-line (property and casualty and life, accident and health) agents must complete twenty-four hours of CE credits. A minimum of eight (8) credit hours must be completed in each line of authority and a minimum of three (3) credit hours of Ethics. Failure to comply will result in the license being nonrenewed.
An individual who arrives after the start of a CE class or leaves before the class is over will not receive credit for the continuing education classroom session, regardless of the number of hours completed during the class session. Instructors may deny credit to anyone who is inattentive (reading the newspaper, talking, etc.)
Licensed insurance agents can check their continuing education status by calling Prometric at 1-800-490-6551, or by checking website: http://www.prometric.com/CE/scceprod
SCID FORM 3617 Revised 7/16/2007
