Wisconsin Administrative Code
Office of the Commissioner of Insurance
Chapter Ins 6 - General
Section Ins 6.50 - Kinds of individual intermediary or agent licenses
Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง Ins 6.50
Current through August 26, 2024
(1) PURPOSE. This rule sets forth the kinds of individual intermediary-agents, reinsurance intermediary and managing general agent licenses which may be issued.
(2) LINES OF LICENSES. The following individual licenses may be issued, each authorizing the solicitation of the line of insurance or the function indicated:
(a) Major lines are all of the following:
1. Life insurance - insurance coverage on
human lives including benefits of endowment and annuities, and may include
benefits in the event of death or dismemberment by accident and benefits for
disability income.
2. Accident and
health insurance - insurance coverage for sickness, bodily injury or accidental
death and may include benefits for disability income.
3. Property insurance - insurance coverage
for the direct or consequential loss or damage to property of every
kind.
4. Casualty insurance -
insurance coverage against legal liability, including that for death, injury or
disability or damage to real or personal property.
5. Personal lines insurance - property and
casualty insurance coverage sold to individuals and families for primarily
noncommercial purposes.
6. Variable
life and variable annuity products - insurance coverage provided under variable
life insurance contracts and variable annuities.
(b) Limited lines are all of the following:
1. Credit insurance - credit life, credit
disability, credit property, credit unemployment, involuntary unemployment,
mortgage life, mortgage guaranty, mortgage disability, guaranteed automobile
protection (gap) insurance, and any other form of insurance offered in
connection with an extension of credit that is limited to partially or wholly
extinguishing that credit obligation that the insurance commissioner determines
should be designated a form of limited line credit insurance.
2. Title insurance - as described in s.
Ins 6.75(2)
(h);
3. Legal expense insurance - insurance that
covers only legal expenses incurred by or provided to an individual or
business
4. Miscellaneous Limited
Line insurance - insurance for an insurer authorized to do business in
Wisconsin which is permitted as a limited line of insurance in a Wisconsin
nonresident intermediary's home state and is not described in this section
shall have the same scope of authority as granted under the limited license
issued by the producer's resident state which shall be briefly described on the
license issued.
Note: All intermediaries holding the limited line automobile authority on the effective date of this rule and all intermediaries holding the limited line town mutual non-property insurance on May 1, 1991 are grandfathered for these authorities.
5. Travel insurance - insurance coverage for
trip cancellation, trip interruption, baggage, life, sickness and accident,
disability and personal effects when limited to a specific trip and sold in
connection with transportation provided by a common carrier.
6. Crop - Insurance providing protection
against damage to crops from unfavorable weather conditions, fire or lightning,
flood, hail, insect infestation, disease or other yield-reducing conditions or
perils provided by the private insurance market, or that is subsidized by the
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, including Multi-Peril Crop
Insurance.
7. Surety - Insurance or
bond that covers obligations to pay the debts of, or answer for the default of
another, including faithlessness in a position of public or private
trust.
(3) Other Licenses issued to individuals are:
(a)
Reinsurance intermediary-broker-activities only as described in ch. Ins
47.
(b) Reinsurance
intermediary-manager-activities only as described in ch. Ins 47.
(c) Managing general agent-activities as
defined in s.
Ins 42.01(3).
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