Since I needed 30 hours for the bi-annual education requirements, and I had received a flyer from "Center for Continuing Education" (www.cceducation.com) I decided to go with them. They had a package for $99. I called the company to get particulars and was advised to take a particular package. It contains 3 classes. The first is a 9-hour ethics class for classroom equivalent. The second class is a 15-hour Principals of Insurance class and finally a 7-hour Property Insurance Class.
The Ethics Class was really a tedious class long and quite boring. But that was nothing compared to the Principals of Insurance class. I have been working on the class for about 7 hours so far and almost 6 hours has been on Life Insurance. This is real CRAP. Like that is of any interest or benefit for anyone that is a cat adjuster. The real problem is that was only the first two lessons of 14. The last 12 had better not take as long as the first two.
My advice is there is no value to this set of courses of the property cat adjuster. Stay away from it. Right now I am trying to find my Flood class. I have the Texas windstorm class in hand. So I will pass on the third in this dreadful series if I find the certification from flood.
Don't they have something easy and simple available like: Hail Claims 101, Insurance For Idiots, or Beginning Basketweaving For Adjusters Sitting At Home Waiting For The Phone To Ring?
Shame, shame, shame on them for trying to introduce new topics of knowledge and expanding closed minds.
Others might want to consider John Durham's class in Latin For The Literate.
I don't think it has anything to do with easy or the lack of expanding ones knowledge. The advice being provided seems to indicate that there may be better CE courses out there for the property adjuster then the one Wally is currently taking.
Talking about C.E. and Correspondence Courses. Which Correspondence Courses would you-all recommend? I have taken a number of courses from Pictorial and found them rather shallow for an adjuster with 15 years in the field. I would recommend the property courses for all adjusters with less than 5 years in the field. www.pictorial.com Web site 317-872-7220 Phone
I started as an insurance broker 18 years ago and was licensed in surrounding states. Now as a full time adjuster I am licensed in multiple states across the U.S., some of which require cont. ed. Since my home state does not license adjusters I have to complete the cont. ed. requirements for those states AND my cont. ed. for my broker's license.
I became certified many years ago as a CIC (Certified Insurance Counselor) which is basically a retail insurance certification. I have kept it up because the annual recertification class allows me to meet all my cont. ed. requirements in any state in the U.S. Most of the classes are ISO coverage intensive (Life/Health and Agency Mangement are not) and I usually take either the Commercial Property, Commercial Liability or Personal Lines class as an annual renewal. I have never left the 2 1/2 day class without something I could use in the field as an adjuster.
They also have a CRM designation (Certified Risk Manager). I started that but it is not as "adjuster orientated" as the CIC classes. The classes in either program though count toward cont. ed. in all states. There are classes in every state and multiple locations all year.
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