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The Pennsylvania Exclusive General Agent license

Exclusive General Agent

Runs a portion of a Pennsylvania-domiciled insurer's business under sole authority, with the power to bind. It is licensed under the producer article and priced on the company side, and the Department charges four times what the statute names.

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 Satisfy the Department on reputation, fitness, competence and reliability

    No state exam for this license

    What the Department must find

    • A good business reputation, and the fitness, competence and reliability sufficient to satisfy the Department that the applicant is worthy of licensure as a manager or exclusive general agent

    and the application and fee

    • A completed application with any other information the Department requires, and the fee: section 632-A(c) sets $100 "unless modified by the department by regulation" and the Department's own company licensing table charges $400 to issue and $400 to renew

    Division 2 of Subarticle A of Article VI-A licenses managers and exclusive general agents together, and section 631-A(a) makes doing the work without the license a misdemeanor of the third degree carrying a fine of up to $1,000 for every day of operation. Section 631-A(b) is three exceptions and the third is the one that separates this license from the next thing along: "A person subject to regulation as a managing general agent under Article VIII" does not need it. The other two are a licensee whose authority is limited primarily to producing business with limited underwriting authority, and anybody operating under a management contract or exclusive general agency agreement entered into before 22 December 1965. Section 632-A asks for no examination, no course and no experience. Section 633-A puts a duty on the insurer rather than the licensee: every domestic insurer operating under a management contract or exclusive general agency agreement must certify the name of its manager or exclusive general agent to the Department within ten days of the contract taking effect and within ten days of each renewal, on the same misdemeanor penalty. The license runs not more than one year, which is short for Pennsylvania, where a producer license runs two.

    Read at palegis.us on 2026-08-19

No national seller sells a course for this license, and nothing could: sections 631-A and 632-A of the Insurance Department Act ask a manager or exclusive general agent for a good business reputation, fitness, competence and reliability, and no examination or course of any kind.