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The Arizona Surplus Lines Broker license

Surplus Lines Broker

Places Arizona business with insurers that hold no Arizona certificate of authority, after finding the cover is not readily available from one that does. Its renewal fee is the largest add-on the Department charges.

Course

None

This license has no pre-licensing course route.

Ways in

1

There is no state exam for this license.

Exam

n/a

Not required on any of the routes below.

Every way to qualify

  1. Route 1 Apply as a broker for a home-state Arizona insured

    No state exam for this license

    • Procuring insurance from an insurer holding no Arizona certificate of authority, for a person whose home state under A.R.S. 20-401(6) is Arizona, after determining the coverage is not readily available from an Arizona-authorized insurer

    No pre-licensing course and no separate examination in the Department's requirements. What it does ask for is fingerprints from each principal where the applicant is organized in Arizona and holds no Arizona producer license, is relocating here, or is not licensed at home with substantially similar authority. An industrial insured as defined at A.R.S. 20-401.07(C) is outside the license entirely. Two things a reader should know before applying. There is a narrower license for one case: somebody selling, soliciting or negotiating alien insurance only for coverage in Mexico under A.R.S. 20-422 applies for a Mexican Insurance Surplus Lines Broker license instead. And since 2020-01-01 every surplus lines tax report is produced through the Surplus Line Association of Arizona system and filed and paid through the NAIC's OPTins, with no paper route. Renewing this authority alongside an adjuster license adds $1,000, the largest add-on the Department charges.

    Read at the Department on 2026-08-18

No national seller sells a course for this license. Arizona sets no surplus lines examination and no course. Two sellers carry surplus lines products in other states and neither lists one here.