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The Indiana Surplus Lines Producer license

Surplus Lines Producer

Places business with insurers not admitted in Indiana, after a diligent search has shown the admitted market will not write it. The Department calls it a second level of licensing and means it literally: the property and casualty producer license comes first, and then a paper of its own.

Course

None

This license has no pre-licensing course route.

Ways in

1

It requires the state exam.

Exam

Not confirmed

Required.

Every way to qualify

  1. Route 1 Hold the property and casualty license, then pass the surplus lines paper

    State exam required

    The underlying producer license

    • an Indiana insurance producer license carrying property and casualty authority, held before the surplus lines application is made

    and the examination

    • The Indiana Surplus Lines examination at Pearson VUE. No pre-licensing education is required for it; Pearson's own crosswalk of exams to course completions records the surplus lines paper as needing none, with a property and casualty license instead.

    The Department states the sequence in one sentence: "A resident insurance producer must have their property and casualty insurance license before seeking licensure as a surplus lines producer."What the license buys is the right to go outside the admitted market once a diligent search has failed, and the Department defines that too: a specific declination of coverage from a number of admitted companies writing that type of cover, or from the companies most likely to write it where nobody does. Availability at a higher premium does not count as unavailable. IC 27-1-15.6-32(d) prices it at $80 for a resident and $120 for a nonresident every two years, which is double the producer license either way.

    Read at the Department on 2026-08-19

Courses

You do not have to buy any of this. The Indiana Department of Insurance asks for no pre-licensing course, so nothing below is required of you. It is exam prep, priced here so you can see what it costs.

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