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The New York Title Insurance Agent license

Title Insurance Agent

Sells title insurance for an authorized title insurance corporation, evaluates the insurability of title off a search, and does at least one of collecting premiums or escrow, marking up a commitment, delivering a policy or clearing title exceptions.

Course

20 hrs

The shortest single course route.

Ways in

2

1 of them skips the state exam.

Exam

$40

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. They are listed in full because the course is only the first of them.

  1. Route 1 Take the 20-hour course

    State exam required

    • 20 hours of the title insurance business, approved by the Department

    Insurance Law 2139(f) sets the twenty hours and puts them where 2103 puts a producer's: an individual "shall not be deemed qualified to take the examination" without them, so the course is the gate to the paper rather than a step beside it. The Department adds that the course has to be completed before sitting the examination. The DFS Portal register carries a Title Insurance Agent listing of its own.

    Read at nysenate.gov on 2026-08-21

  2. Route 2 Be a New York attorney in good standing

    Exempt from the state exam

    • Admitted to practice law in New York and in good standing with the New York State Office of Court Administration, evidenced by a certificate of good standing dated within 90 days from the Appellate Division department of admission.

    The Department waives the course and the examination together for this applicant, which is not how its designation waivers work elsewhere: those excuse the course and leave the paper.

    Read at the Department on 2026-08-21

A course is required and nobody sells one

Six providers are approved to teach New York's twenty title hours and none of them is a national seller this site tracks: Absentia LLC trading as CE LIVE, Cape School, the Center for Insurance Careers, General New York Systems, the National Law Institute, and New York Real Estate & Insurance Institute. No national seller prices a title product.