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AL Property & Casualty study plan

AL Property & Casualty · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Alabama Insurance Laws, Rules, and Regulations

  • List from memory Alabama producer licensing requirements, appointment and termination procedures, and the state's continuing-education hour and deadline rules

  • Distinguish the regulatory authority of the Alabama Department of Insurance and the Commissioner from federal and other state authority

  • Match at least ten unfair trade practices and prohibited acts in the Alabama code to fact patterns that illustrate each

  • State the penalties, fines, and license-revocation triggers the Commissioner may impose and the timeframes for hearings and appeals

Your checkpoint

One-page Alabama numbers-and-deadlines cheat sheet plus a timed 30-question Domain 1 quiz scored at 85% or higher

Week 2

Dwelling and Homeowners Policies

  • Compare HO-2, HO-3, HO-5, HO-4, HO-6, and HO-8 by named-peril versus open-peril treatment and by who each form insures

  • Map Section I Coverages A through D to a sample policy and calculate a dwelling loss settlement including the deductible and any sublimits

  • Apply Section II Coverage E and F limits, exclusions, and the duties-after-loss conditions to at least six claim scenarios

  • Differentiate the DP-1, DP-2, and DP-3 dwelling forms from one another and from the HO forms on perils, valuation, and endorsements

Your checkpoint

A completed form-comparison matrix for all dwelling and homeowners forms, plus a 40-question Domain 4 quiz scored at 80% or higher

Week 3

General Insurance Concepts and Principles & Property Insurance Basics and Policy Provisions

  • Define risk, peril, hazard, indemnity, insurable interest, subrogation, and adverse selection and apply each to a short insurance scenario

  • Differentiate representations, warranties, concealment, misrepresentation, waiver, and estoppel and identify which void or merely reduce coverage

  • Deconstruct a specimen policy into declarations, insuring agreement, conditions, exclusions, and definitions and explain the function of each section

  • Compute coinsurance penalties, ACV versus replacement-cost settlements, and deductible applications from given numbers

Your checkpoint

Ten fully worked loss-settlement and coinsurance problems with at least 90% computational accuracy

Week 4

Casualty Insurance Basics and Liability Concepts

  • Break negligence into its four elements and analyze proximate cause, comparative versus contributory negligence, and the last clear chance doctrine in scenarios

  • Distinguish strict and absolute liability, vicarious liability, and contractual liability and name one common example of each

  • Separate compensatory special and general damages from punitive and nominal damages and state what each covers

  • Identify the common liability exclusions and defenses that appear across commercial and personal liability forms

Your checkpoint

A 60-question half-length mixed practice exam scored at 75% or higher with every missed item logged by domain

Week 5

Commercial General Liability & Workers' Compensation Insurance

  • Break down CGL Coverages A, B, and C and explain the occurrence versus claims-made trigger, the retroactive date, and the extended reporting period

  • Apply the CGL exclusions for your work, your product, contractual liability, and employers liability to at least eight claim scenarios

  • Determine workers' compensation benefits for medical, temporary total, permanent partial, permanent total, and death claims including Alabama's waiting period and benefit percentage

  • Explain workers' compensation exclusivity, the employer's liability Part Two coverage, and how coverage responds to out-of-state exposure

Your checkpoint

A 20-question drill combining CGL exclusion analysis and workers' compensation benefit calculations, scored at 80% or higher

Week 6

Commercial Property and Commercial Package Policies

  • Compare commercial property forms and the basic, broad, and special causes-of-loss forms on covered perils and exclusions

  • Compute coinsurance, agreed-value, and business income with extra expense payments for a sample commercial account

  • Explain blanket versus specific insurance, reporting forms, and the margin clause and when each is used

  • Outline the commercial package policy structure and identify which inland marine and crime endorsements are commonly attached

Your checkpoint

A one-page underwriting summary of a sample commercial account listing each coverage, limit, and coverage gap found

Week 7

Personal and Commercial Automobile Insurance & Other Coverages (umbrella/excess liability, inland marine, crime, boiler and machinery)

  • Compare personal auto Coverages A through D, the major exclusions, and Alabama's financial responsibility minimum limits

  • Differentiate common personal auto endorsements and explain why Alabama's tort-based system differs from no-fault and PIP states

  • Apply business auto symbols 1 through 9 and the MCS-90 and trucking concepts to given fleet and delivery scenarios

  • Outline the coverage triggers for umbrella and excess liability, inland marine, crime, and boiler and machinery

Your checkpoint

A 40-question auto quiz scored at 80% or higher plus a ten-line cheat sheet on the four other-coverage lines

Week 8

Alabama Insurance Laws, Rules, and Regulations & General Insurance Concepts and Principles & Property Insurance Basics and Policy Provisions & Dwelling and Homeowners Policies & Commercial Property and Commercial Package Policies & Casualty Insurance Basics and Liability Concepts & Commercial General Liability & Personal and Commercial Automobile Insurance & Workers' Compensation Insurance & Other Coverages (umbrella/excess liability, inland marine, crime, boiler and machinery)

  • Complete a timed 150-question full-length practice exam under exam conditions and score at least 80% overall

  • Re-drill the three lowest-scoring domains from the practice score report until each reaches 85% or higher

  • Recite Alabama-specific numbers, deadlines, and penalty amounts from flashcards with 100% recall

  • Rehearse policy-limit and deductible calculations under time pressure without reference to notes

Your checkpoint

Final practice score report at 80% or higher plus a one-page master sheet of all numbers, limits, and deadlines

Milestones

Week 2: Can name Alabama licensing, CE, and unfair-trade-practice rules from memory, and score 80% or higher on the homeowners and dwelling quiz

Week 4: Half-length practice exam score of 75% or higher with a written log showing misses tagged by domain

Week 6: All 10% domains completed; CGL, workers' compensation, and commercial property drills each at 80% or higher

Week 8: Full-length timed exam at 80% or higher overall with no domain below 70%, and 100% recall on the Alabama numbers sheet