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The Hawaii Managing General Agent license

Managing General Agent

Manages all or part of an insurer's book and is measured rather than described: five percent of the insurer's policyholder surplus in gross direct written premium in a quarter or a year, plus claims authority above $10,000 or reinsurance negotiation. The Division issues it as its own license type; the statute asks only for a producer license.

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 Hold a Hawaii producer license, and meet the definition

    No state exam for this license

    The producer license

    • a Hawaii insurance producer license, required whether the risks are located here for an insurer licensed here or located outside the State for an insurer domiciled here

    and being inside the definition, which is arithmetic

    • Producing and underwriting gross direct written premium equal to or more than five percent of the insurer's policyholder surplus as reported in its last annual statement, in any one quarter or year, and either adjusting or paying claims in excess of $10,000 or negotiating reinsurance on the insurer's behalf

    431:9C-102 is the whole of the licensing requirement and it names no license of its own: (a) and (b) both read "unless licensed as a producer in this State". The Division nonetheless issues a Managing General Agent license under that name, with its own NIPR application, its own renewal and its own fee of $225 to issue and $150 to renew, so the file is built under the Division's name with the statute's requirement on the page. That is Idaho's rule of 2026-08-19 applied to the role three states have now answered three ways in three days: Oregon makes it an indorsement on the producer license with no examination and gets no page, Washington says on its own site "We do not offer MGA licenses" and gets none either, and Hawaii and Idaho both issue one. 431:9C-101 supplies the quantitative definition and then excludes four people from it: an employee of the insurer, a United States manager of the United States branch of an alien insurer, an underwriting manager under common control with the insurer whose pay is not based on premium volume, and, at the end of the same list, the attorney-in-fact of a reciprocal insurer. No examination, no course and no bond anywhere in article 9C.

    Read at capitol.hawaii.gov on 2026-08-19

No national seller sells a course for this license. Article 9C sets no examination, no course and no bond; the qualification is a producer license and a definition measured in premium volume.