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Getting an insurance license in New Hampshire

New Hampshire licenses through the New Hampshire Insurance Department, which calls the licensee a producer. Which license you need depends on what you intend to sell, and the requirements differ sharply between them.

License types

Is a course required?

New Hampshire requires no pre-licensing course for Every producer line of authority.

The statute lists what the commissioner must find before approving a resident producer application: at least 18, no disqualifying act, [Repealed.], fees paid, examinations passed. The third item was the education requirement and it was repealed with effect from July 11, 2008. A sourced zero read off the statute, with the empty slot still visible in the list. Read at the legislature's own page on 2026-08-16, having been read from an Internet Archive copy before that. The host moved rather than broke: gencourt.state.nh.us no longer resolves at all and gc.nh.gov answers a plain fetch, so the archived copy is no longer needed and the slot is still empty on the live page.

Read at the Department on 2026-08-16 . RSA 402-J:6, I(c), repealed by 2008, 18:1, III

New Hampshire requires no pre-licensing course for Insurance claims adjusters.

The adjuster chapter asks for a written examination administered by the commissioner and for nothing else. There is no education provision anywhere in RSA 402-B, and the two exceptions at RSA 402-B:5 take the examination away rather than put a course in its place: a nonresident licensed at home, or with six months in the business where their own state licenses nobody, and an attorney at law.

Read at the Department on 2026-08-19 . RSA 402-B:4

New Hampshire requires no pre-licensing course for Public adjusters.

RSA 402-D:5 is a list of nine findings the commissioner must make and no course is among them. What stands in front of this license instead is an examination, five years of experience in the insurance business, an office in New Hampshire open to the public, and $20,000 of financial responsibility.

Read at the Department on 2026-08-19 . RSA 402-D:5

New Hampshire requires pre-licensing education for Life settlement producers , at 15 hours.

The only pre-licensing hour count in New Hampshire insurance law, and it arrived two years after the producer one was repealed. Fifteen hours of training or education related to life settlements and life settlement transactions, found by the commissioner as part of a list of character findings rather than set out as a course requirement. No provider is approved in advance, no register is kept and no delivery method is set. A resident or nonresident life producer licensed for at least one year is deemed to meet it and takes none of the hours.

Read at the Department on 2026-08-19 . RSA 408-D:3, VI(b)(2)

Fees

Charge Paid to Amount
Producer application and license fee RSA 400-A:29, X(a), the same figure for a resident and a non-resident, and non-refundable on submission. The subsection prices producers as one class, so it reaches every line of authority New Hampshire writes, the limited lines with them, and the temporary license too. New Hampshire Insurance Department $210.00
Biennial renewal RSA 400-A:29, X(b). A late renewal costs another $150 on top and late completion of continuing education is $50. A renewal is not a cost of getting a first license, so it is scoped to nothing and no cost page totals it. New Hampshire Insurance Department $150.00
Amendment to license RSA 400-A:29, X(c). Not charged for a change of name, a change of address, or a change of the designated registered license producer. It is a charge on an existing license, so it is scoped to nothing. New Hampshire Insurance Department $50.00
Appointment RSA 400-A:29, X(f), and $25 again to terminate one under X(g). An appointment is what an insurer files after a producer is licensed, so it is scoped to nothing. New Hampshire Insurance Department $25.00
Adjuster application and license fee RSA 400-A:29, XIV, the same figure for a resident and a nonresident, and $75 again for the biennial renewal. A late renewal costs another $75 and late completion of continuing education $25. New Hampshire Insurance Department $75.00
Public adjuster application and license fee RSA 400-A:29, XVII, resident and nonresident alike, and $100 again for the biennial renewal. It buys a license that also needs $20,000 of financial responsibility posted before it issues. New Hampshire Insurance Department $100.00
Managing general agent original license RSA 400-A:29, XVIII(b), with $250 to renew and the renewal annual rather than biennial. The $50 application fee is a row of its own. New Hampshire Insurance Department $350.00
Reinsurance intermediary original license RSA 400-A:29, XIX(b), with $250 to renew. One license covers both the broker and the manager role. The $50 application fee is a row of its own. New Hampshire Insurance Department $350.00
Discount medical plan organization registration RSA 400-A:29, XX, and $150 to renew. The certificate of registration expires every 1 June. New Hampshire Insurance Department $300.00
Managing general agent application fee RSA 400-A:29, XVIII(a), payable on the application and before the $350 the license itself costs, so an original managing general agent license is $400 in Department fees. New Hampshire Insurance Department $50.00
Reinsurance intermediary application fee RSA 400-A:29, XIX(a), on the same pattern: $50 to apply and $350 for the license, so an original reinsurance intermediary license is $400. New Hampshire Insurance Department $50.00
Consultant, administrator and pharmacy benefits manager license Searched and not published. RSA 400-A:29 is New Hampshire's fee schedule and it enumerates what the Department charges for, down to $1 a page for copies. It prices producers at $210 with a $150 biennial renewal, advisory organizations, health service corporations, road and tourist services, consumer guaranty contract obligors, surplus lines inclusion and variable life registration, and it names the insurance consultant, the third party administrator and the pharmacy benefits manager nowhere. Paragraph XII mentions the consultant only to charge $1 a page for copies of its licensing documents, which is the schedule acknowledging the license exists while pricing nothing about issuing it. NIPR's New Hampshire resident licensing pages were checked on 2026-09-06 and carry none of the three either. The amounts are left unread rather than guessed. New Hampshire Insurance Department Not confirmed
Life settlement provider license NIPR publishes it as "Life Settlement Producer" at $210, the same figure New Hampshire charges an ordinary insurance producer under RSA 400-A:29(X)(a). The statute's own schedule names the life settlement provider nowhere, which is why this was recorded as unread until NIPR was checked. New Hampshire Insurance Department $210.00

Every amount above was read at its own source between 2026-08-21 and 2026-09-06. Exam and fingerprint charges go to a vendor, not to the Department, and say so.

Approved courses

There is nothing to approve for a producer. The statutory slot for a producer education requirement has been empty since 2008. One license does carry hours: RSA 408-D:3, VI(b)(2) asks a life settlement producer for fifteen hours of training or education related to life settlements, and the chapter approves no provider in advance and keeps no register, so there is no list to search. What the Department does approve is continuing education, and it approves it separately for producers, for adjusters under RSA 402-B:5-a and for public adjusters under RSA 402-D:12.