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The California Apprentice Public Insurance Adjuster license

Apprentice Public Insurance Adjuster

Employed by a public insurance adjuster for the purpose of training, in the statute's own six words. It is the only California license the Department's fee schedule prices with no renewal fee at all, because it is not meant to be held twice.

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 Be employed by a public insurance adjuster for training

    No state exam for this license

    The employing licensee

    • Employment by a licensed California public insurance adjuster for the purpose of training, which is the whole of what section 15016 describes the license as

    and bond

    • a bond in the penal sum of $20,000, which is the same figure the public insurance adjuster who employs the apprentice must carry

    California Insurance Code section 15016: "An Apprentice Public Insurance Adjuster licensee is a person employed by a Public Insurance Adjuster for the purpose of training."The Department asks for eighteen years of age, California residency or a designated home state, and the $20,000 bond, and records both prelicensing education and the examination as Not required. The fee is $264, the same as the public insurance adjuster's, and the schedule prints N/A in the renewal and late renewal columns alike: this license does not renew.

    Read at the Department on 2026-08-20

Nothing is taught and nothing is examined. What the license takes is a job with a licensed public insurance adjuster and a $20,000 bond, so no school has anything to sell against it.