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Getting an insurance license in Alaska

Alaska licenses through the Alaska Division of Insurance, which calls the licensee a producer. Which license you need depends on what you intend to sell, and the requirements differ sharply between them.

License types

Is a course required?

Alaska requires no pre-licensing course for Every license issued under AS 21.27: producer lines, the nine limited producer licenses, the managing general agent, both reinsurance intermediaries, the surplus lines broker, the independent adjuster and its trainee, the third-party administrator and the pharmacy benefits manager.

Two documents were needed rather than one. AS 21.27.020(b) lists six qualifications for an individual license, among them passing the examination, and no course. It then lets the director adopt regulations adding education or experience requirements, which is exactly the opening that stops a list being read as complete. The regulations adopted under it are 3 AAC 23, and that chapter contains no pre-licensing education provision at all: its education sections are continuing education, from the credit rules to the provider approvals. A sourced zero, read off the statute and confirmed against the regulations it defers to. Re-read on 2026-08-18 against the whole of AS 21.27 rather than against the producer lines alone, and it holds for every license in the chapter, because AS 21.27.020 is the general qualification behind all of them and the sections that add to it add bonds, errors and omissions cover, experience and accountants’ certificates, never a course.

Read at the Department on 2026-08-18 . AS 21.27.020(b) and 3 AAC 23

Alaska requires no pre-licensing course for Viatical settlement provider, broker and representative.

AS 21.96.110(b) is the whole licensing requirement and it names an application, the information the director requires and the fee. No course, no examination and no experience bar for any of the three. AS 21.96.110(f)(5) lets the director adopt regulations covering license qualification and none has been adopted: 3 AAC 23 is fingerprinting, examination scores and continuing education and says nothing about viatical settlements. A delegation that was never used, which is the shape Massachusetts wrote at 162L(a)(3) and Delaware at 18 Del. C. 1751(b).

Read at the Department on 2026-08-18 . AS 21.96.110

Fees

Charge Paid to Amount
Producer, managing general agent, reinsurance intermediary, independent adjuster or trainee license Initial application or biennial renewal, and $75 whatever the shape of it: resident or non-resident, individual or firm, all lines or property and casualty only or life only. 3 AAC 31.020(a)(2) prices each of the seven limited producer licenses at the same $75, (a)(3) the resident limited title producer and (a)(4) a temporary license. It is scoped to the surplus lines broker as well, because AS 21.27.790(1) makes that license sit on a producer or managing general agent license and the $300 below is charged on top of this $75 rather than instead of it. Alaska charges the same $75 across most of its producer lines, and the schedule is flat everywhere except the two figures that are not producer licenses at all: $2,000 for a third-party administrator and $20,000 for a pharmacy benefits manager. Alaska Division of Insurance $75.00
Surplus lines broker license Initial application or biennial renewal, resident or non-resident, individual or firm. Four times the producer license it has to sit on top of. Alaska Division of Insurance $300.00
Viatical settlement provider license Initial application or biennial renewal, resident or non-resident, individual or firm. Alaska Division of Insurance $300.00
Viatical settlement broker or representative license Initial application or biennial renewal, and the same figure for both tiers. Alaska Division of Insurance $100.00
Third-party administrator license Initial and biennial renewal, set in AS 21.27.640(e) itself. The fee regulation disagrees the same way: 3 AAC 31.020(a)(5) still prices a third-party administrator registration at $300. The statute is both the higher authority and the later enactment, so the statutory figure is the one printed here. Alaska Division of Insurance $2,000.00
Pharmacy benefits manager license Initial and biennial renewal, set in AS 21.27.905(a) itself. The fee regulation disagrees: 3 AAC 31.020(a)(5) still prices a pharmacy benefits manager registration at $300. The statute is both the higher authority and the later enactment, so the statutory figure is the one printed here. Alaska Division of Insurance $20,000.00
Paper filing surcharge 3 AAC 31.060(b): charged where the applicant files on paper and applying electronically was available to them. Nobody has to pay it, so it is scoped to nothing and no cost page totals it; a reader who files on paper adds $50 to whichever row applies. Alaska Division of Insurance $50.00

Every amount above was read at its own source on 2026-08-21. Exam and fingerprint charges go to a vendor, not to the Department, and say so.

Approved courses

There is no register. Alaska’s insurance regulations approve continuing education providers and courses in detail and say nothing about pre-licensing, because there is no pre-licensing course to approve. 3 AAC 23.100 through 3 AAC 23.208 are the continuing education rules, and they run to more than twenty sections covering provider qualification, instructor qualification, course approval and renewal, advertising and revocation. Every Alaska requirement and figure on this site is read at the legislature, which publishes both the statutes and the administrative code in full, and the department link goes there.