Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 38a - Insurance Department
782a - Continuing Education of Insurance Producers
Section 38a-782a-5 - Course approval
Current through March 14, 2024
(a) Each course shall be approved by the commissioner prior to the initial course offering, and before any advertisement of, or solicitation for, the course is effected. It is the sponsor's responsibility to provide an acceptable application on a form approved by the commissioner for a course to be approved. The application shall include a detailed course content outline and the sponsor's tuition and fee refund policy. The department shall not be liable to the sponsor for any action taken or any expense incurred by the sponsor, such as advertising costs, in anticipation of course approval. The department will approve a course as an acceptable continuing education program if it:
(b) The following are "not approved" courses:
(c) If approval has been granted for the initial offering of a course, recertification may be granted without requiring a new application. Recertification will require only information concerning course content submitted on a form acceptable to the commissioner.
(d) Materials and course content used in subsequent offerings of approved courses shall be updated to maintain currency of the information.
(e) Classroom courses which have not been used for a period of five years shall be purged from the department's database file of approved courses. Future use of purged courses shall require a new application.
(f) The department reserves the right to audit courses and administrative records with or without notice to the sponsor. Audits shall result in notice to the sponsor of any deficiencies found and of corrective action required by the sponsor where warranted. The department may reduce the number of approved credit hours for the course, or disapprove the course entirely if the sponsor fails to correct the deficiencies.
(g) The department or its designee shall approve or disapprove a course within sixty days of receipt of application for approval. Any rejection shall be in writing and shall include the reasons for disapproval.