This Study Guide has been prepared to enhance your learning experience. It contains all of the Check-In questions, Knowledge Checks, and Self-Quizzes contained within the course, along with an Answer Key and Glossary. Use it as a tool to help practice and assess your knowledge of the course material, but do not mistake it for a comprehensive “short-cut” to preparing for the final exam.
Be sure to take a look at the section, “Appendix,” that follows the Answer Key in this Study Guide. It contains valuable suggestions for test preparation and study techniques, as well as some sample exam questions and a glossary of terms.
Your path to success in passing the final exam will come from your attentiveness during the course and the effort you put into preparation.
Study Set
Use this study set to review digital flashcards and play interactive vocabulary games for the insurance & risk management terms found in the glossary of this course!
Review Game
Launch this trivia-style review game to test your knowledge prior to taking the final exam for this course!
Section 1 – Legal & Ethical Requirements
Why We Study Ethics in Insurance
The video that follows outlines why the insurance industry emphasizes that licensed professionals regularly review the importance of ethics in performing their job.
A Word About the Agent
The video that follows explains “what an agent is” in the insurance industry and some of the important aspects of that position.
Why Education is So Important for Agents
The video that follows discusses why technical education is so important to the skills of insurance professionals.
Section 2 – Managing the Insurance Agency
What Kind of Agency Will you Be?
The video that follows outlines how and why different insurance agencies fall into a wide variety of types.
How Agencies Can Evolve
The video that follows explains how insurance agencies can change over time and why.
Staffing and Recruitment
The video that follows outlines the demand for such a wide variety of people in the insurance industry.
Cooperating with Competitors
The video that follows explains the interesting way that insurance industry professionals cooperate with each other to help the industry succeed.
Section 3 – The Insurance Industry and Marketplace
Types of Agents and Agencies
The video that follows explains the difference between direct, captive, and independent agencies.
Admitted vs. Non-Admitted Insurance
The video that follows outlines the difference between admitted and non-admitted insurance, and why it is important.
A Good Company Fit for an Agency
The video that follows discusses why it is important for an insurance agency and insurance company to work together well.
Surplus Lines Agencies
The video that follows explains the role and activities of a surplus lines agency.
Insurance Company Financial Ratings
The video that follows explains how the system of giving insurance companies financial ratings works and what it means.
Understanding Reinsurance
The video that follows explains how the reinsurance marketplace works.
Section 4 – Risk Management & Agency Processes
Agency Technology Choices
The video that follows explains how technology has changed the way insurance agencies operate and the choices they have.
How Insurance and Risk Management Work Together
The video that follows outlines how insurance and risk management work together to protect businesses and individuals.
Identifying Loss Exposures
The video that follows introduces the concept of risk identification.
Section 6 – Managing the Agency Workflows & Procedures
Workflows That Work
The video that follows discusses how insurance agency workflows can differ.
Section 8 – Errors & Omissions
Errors and Omissions Exposures in the Agency
The video that follows explains how errors and omissions exposures impact the insurance agency.
