Become an Alaska Insurance Adjuster

AdjusterPro's Bottom-line: If you are an Alaska resident or reside in a state that does not have a licensing requirement, you must observe the experience criteria below and successfully complete the Alaska exam administered by Pearson-Vue before obtaining your adjuster license. If you have an adjuster license from your home state, the exam requirement is waived. The 24 hour resident continuing education requirement can be completed online.

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Adjuster License Requirements

To become a licensed independent Alaska insurance adjuster, individuals must:

• Have six (6) months' experience within the last two calendar years as any of the following:
  • Independent adjuster
  • Independent adjuster trainee
  • Insurance Producer
  • Managing General Agent
  • Reinsurance intermediary manager or broker
  • Underwriter or claims adjuster employee of an insurer

EXEMPTION: If you are a staff adjuster and adjust claims on behalf of your employer, an admitted insurer, you do not need an independent adjuster license.

Adjuster Exam Preparation

AdjusterPro is partnered with Insurance-Schools.Com to bring you the most comprehensive exam study materials available specifically for Alaska. Select from any of the packages (above-right) and take the Pearson-Vue exam with the confidence in knowing you've had the best possible preparation.

Adjuster Exam Registration

Refer to page one "Procedure for Testing" of application AID-LI-ADJ (below) for full details on scheduling your exam.

Alaska License Application

FOR RESIDENTS OF ALASKA:

• Alaska Application Form 08-240 OR apply online.
• Application Fee plus the Fingerprint Card Evaluation Fee of $54.25
• One (1) Fingerprint Card
• Examination Results (valid one year from administration date)

FOR RESIDENTS OF STATES HAVING AN ADJUSTER LICENSING REQUIREMENT:

Alaska Application Form 08-240 OR apply online.

FOR RESIDENTS OF STATES without AN ADJUSTER LICENSING REQUIREMENT:

• Alaska Application Form 08-240 OR apply online.
• Application Fee plus the Fingerprint Card Evaluation Fee of $54.25
• One (1) Fingerprint Card
• Examination Results (valid one year from administration date)

NOTE: None of these applications need be notarized.

Address Changes

Follow this link to report Address Changes.

Reciprocity

Alaska grants reciprocity to adjusters holding an adjuster license from their home state. However, if your home state does not require a license, and even if you have another state's license, you will be required to take Alaska's state exam administered by Promissor.

Maintaining Your License

This license is considered as a two-year license that is renewable on the applicant's birthday. In order to renew, submit:

• Licensee renewal form, available online for residents and non-residents:
  • Resident renewal
  • Non-resident renewal
  • Continuing Education credits:
    • Resident license: 24 hours CE per 2 year reporting period.
    • Non-resident license: No CE required, as long as you submit satisfactory evidence that you have satisfied any CE requirements in your home state.
    • For more details concerning Alaska's CE requirements, click here to visit their FAQs page.
  • Renewal fee
• Lapsed License Policy:
  • Your license will lapse if, after two years, you have not completed the required CE credits.
  • Within six months of the date it lapsed, a license may be reinstated by submitting the following:
  • Renewal form and all renewal requirements (see above).
  • A delayed renewal penalty fee
  • If required, attestation to the CE credits claimed
  • Business Transaction form 08-307
  • If it has been over six months, but within one year since your license lapsed, you must submit the following:
  • A new application form and all the requirements listed on the application
  • A delayed renewal penalty fee
  • If required, attestation to the CE credits claimed
  • Business Transaction form 08-307
  • If you desire to reinstate your license over a year after it has lapsed, you will have to submit new examination results along with the requirements listed above.

License Fees

• Resident licensing fee: $35.00-$50.00 (see application for details)
• Resident applicant fingerprint card processing fee: $54.25
• Non-resident licensing fee: $50.00-$100.00 (see application for details)
• Renewal fee

Contact the Alaska Department of Insurance

PO Box 110805, Juneau, Alaska 99811

Phone: (907) 465-2515, Fax: (907) 465-3422, Email: insurance@commerce.state.ak.us