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The Louisiana Public Adjuster license

Public Adjuster

Adjusts a Louisiana loss for the insured. The only license in the state where the application has to be filed before the examination can even be scheduled.

Course

None

This license has no pre-licensing course route.

Ways in

2

1 of them skips the state exam.

Exam

$50

Required on some routes and not others.

Every way to qualify

More than one route leads to this license, and which one you take changes what you study and whether you sit the exam. There is no pre-licensing course among them: this license is qualified for by sitting the examination or moving here already licensed.

  1. Route 1 File the application, then pass the examination

    State exam required

    • A surety bond of $50,000, whose original form has to reach the LDI before the license will issue

    Louisiana asks no pre-licensing course of an adjuster. The LDI's application page sets out what an applicant does, in three steps: contact PSI for the examination, file through NIPR, be fingerprinted. It is a complete enumeration rather than a silence, and the proof is that it carries the extra requirements where they exist: three months of apprenticeship for bail bonds, two years of licensure or professional experience for surplus lines, a separate qualifications page for title, and a $50,000 bond and an application-before-examination rule for public adjusters. A course would be on it. Two things are this license's alone. The application comes first: the LDI notifies PSI that an applicant is eligible to schedule the examination only after the application has been filed, which reverses the order every other Louisiana license uses. And the $50,000 bond is the largest financial responsibility Louisiana asks of any individual licensee. PSI series 301.

    Read at the Department on 2026-08-18

  2. Route 2 Move to Louisiana holding the same license elsewhere

    Exempt from the state exam

    • 90 days Transferring a resident license held in the previous state of residence, either still current or cancelled within the last ninety days, with the exemption requested from the LDI by email quoting the NIPR transaction number

    The LDI grants this as an exemption from the examination requirement rather than as a separate license, and it has to be asked for: file the resident application, comply with fingerprinting, then email producerlicensing@ldi.la.gov with the NIPR transaction number. A letter of clearance may be required where the national licensing database cannot evidence the earlier license.

    Read at the Department on 2026-08-18

Louisiana's public adjuster sits its own examination, PSI series 301, and no national seller carries a product for it.