General Title Insurance Continuing Education Requirements

| Thursday, October 27, 2011
By Ed Hulse


There are a number of professions that requires the people practicing them update their knowledge regularly. Selling title insurance is one of such professions and salesmen are required to know all title insurance continuing education requirements and enroll in CE classes. This is because, when they take continuing education classes, they keep abreast of happenings in the industry and are better equipped to give their clients up to date information.

The fact remains that different states have different requirements as far as CE is concerned. In the same vein, different countries have different prerequisites. However, all insurance salesmen have some continuing education conditions that they have to fulfill in the course of their careers.

All the states have a mandatory number of course hours for CE. The course hours may be split over the duration of months, quarters or even years. It all depends on the student. In addition enrolling in an online class gives the student the freedom to choose how to complete his or her course hours.

Moreover, some certification tests can only be attempted once in year or even once in two years. It is important to know the number of attempts available for each test in order to make adequate preparations and pass in flying colors. Nevertheless, some states give a grace period for which an applicant can retake a test. However, failure to pass an exam during the grace period means that the applicant will have to wait for another turn.

The importance of taking a test from a certified body cannot be overemphasized. One should endeavor to enroll in continue education classes from bodies approved by the government. Failure to do this may lead to frustration if the exam is not accredited by a government agency.

However, running an online search still remains the best way to get all encompassing information about title insurance continuing education requirements of each state. There are enough resources on the Internet that will yield tons of information in this regard. In addition, there is a greater probability of obtaining the latest information from the Internet.




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1 comments:

Victoria Alix said...

Back when I first started in title insurance, I took all my CE classes myself and nearly burned out. A friend told me later that you can actually use services like Take Class For Me to get help with your online courses, and I was like, why didn’t anyone tell me sooner? If you’re in this profession, knowing your options makes a big difference.

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