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AZ Property & Casualty study plan

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

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Insurance Regulation & General Insurance Concepts

  • Define insurance, risk, peril, hazard, loss, and exposure, and list the characteristics that make a risk insurable.

  • Distinguish indemnity, insurable interest, utmost good faith, subrogation, and adhesion as they apply to a P&C contract.

  • Describe Arizona producer licensing, appointment, renewal, continuing education, and recordkeeping duties using the official state licensing outline.

  • Identify Arizona unfair trade practice violations, including rebating, misrepresentation, commingling, and twisting, and explain the producer's fiduciary duty.

Your checkpoint

Closed-book 30-question quiz on Domains 1 and 2 at 80% or better, plus a one-page written summary of Arizona licensing/CE and unfair trade practice rules.

Week 2

Property Insurance Basics

  • Label the parts of a property policy: declarations, insuring agreement, conditions, exclusions, and definitions.

  • Compare actual cash value, replacement cost, functional replacement cost, and market value, then compute a settlement under each method.

  • Calculate coinsurance penalties and apply deductible and limit-of-liability rules to partial and total losses.

  • Match the HO-2, HO-3, HO-4, HO-5, HO-6, HO-8, DP-1, and DP-3 forms to their eligible insureds and covered perils.

Your checkpoint

Ten graded loss-settlement math problems (ACV, RC, coinsurance, deductible) with work shown, scored at 90% or better.

Week 3

Casualty Insurance Basics

  • Explain the four elements of negligence and distinguish contributory, comparative, and assumption-of-risk defenses.

  • Differentiate compensatory, general, special, and punitive damages and identify who may recover in a liability claim.

  • Map the personal auto policy parts: liability, medical payments, uninsured/underinsured motorist, collision, other-than-collision, duties after loss, and exclusions.

  • Describe workers compensation benefits, employer's liability, and the exclusive remedy doctrine.

  • Distinguish absolute, strict, and vicarious liability and explain additional insured status and subrogation rights.

Your checkpoint

A one-page personal auto coverage comparison chart (coverage, what it pays, key exclusions) plus a 25-question casualty quiz at 80% or better.

Week 4

Property and Casualty Policy Coverages and Exclusions

  • Identify Coverages A through F under a homeowners policy and state the special limits that apply to money, jewelry, firearms, and business property.

  • Explain Section II Coverage E and F, including defense costs, medical payments to others, and the insured's duty to cooperate.

  • Explain the standard property exclusions (ordinance or law, earth movement, water damage, neglect, intentional loss, freezing, concurrent causation) and name the endorsements that restore them.

  • Apply homeowners and dwelling loss facts to select covered versus excluded items and compute the payment.

Your checkpoint

A timed 40-question homeowners/dwelling practice set, scored at 80% or better, with every missed question logged by exclusion type.

Week 5

Property and Casualty Policy Coverages and Exclusions

  • Break down the commercial general liability policy into Coverage A, B, and C and explain occurrence versus claims-made triggers.

  • Distinguish per-occurrence limits, general aggregate, products-completed operations aggregate, and personal and advertising injury limits.

  • Outline the coverages and eligibility rules of the businessowners policy and the commercial package policy, including building, business personal property, and business income.

  • Describe commercial auto and commercial property coverage forms and list their principal exclusions.

Your checkpoint

A written CGL limit-and-trigger outline (one page) plus a 30-question commercial lines set at 80% or better.

Week 6

Property and Casualty Policy Coverages and Exclusions & Property Insurance Basics & Casualty Insurance Basics

  • Match common endorsements (additional insured, water backup, scheduled personal property, business income, equipment breakdown) to the gap each one closes.

  • Explain Arizona financial responsibility requirements and how they interact with personal auto liability and UM/UIM coverage.

  • Compare inland marine, crime, and dwelling fire coverages and identify which policy responds to a given loss fact pattern.

  • Solve ten integrated scenario questions that require choosing the correct policy, coverage part, and limit.

Your checkpoint

A 50-question cumulative practice exam covering Domains 3, 4, and 5 at 75% or better, with a written list of the five weakest sub-topics.

Week 7

Property and Casualty Policy Coverages and Exclusions & Insurance Regulation

  • Re-teach the five weakest sub-topics from Week 6 by rewriting each rule in your own words and creating a worked example.

  • Distinguish covered versus excluded perils across HO, DP, PAP, CGL, and BOP without referring to notes.

  • Recite Arizona regulatory points most often tested: producer authority, premium handling, cancellation and nonrenewal notice, and claim handling standards.

  • Complete mixed-domain question sets in 15-minute blocks to build pacing.

Your checkpoint

A rewritten one-page 'weak spot' reference sheet plus two mixed 25-question sets scored at 85% or better.

Week 8

Insurance Regulation & General Insurance Concepts & Property Insurance Basics & Casualty Insurance Basics & Property and Casualty Policy Coverages and Exclusions

  • Complete two full-length timed practice exams simulating exam conditions.

  • Review every missed item and classify the error as content gap, misread, or guess.

  • Re-drill all sub-topics that produced more than two missed questions.

  • Recite the core exam facts - policy structures, limits, exclusions, and Arizona rules - from memory in a 20-minute verbal run-through.

Your checkpoint

Two full-length practice exams completed with a final score of 85% or better on the second attempt, plus a completed error log.

Milestones

Week 2: Pass a 20-question checkpoint on Domains 1 and 2 at 80% or better, and correctly solve 8 of 10 loss-settlement calculations.

Week 4: Halfway benchmark: cumulative 60-question exam across Domains 1 through 5 at 75% or better.

Week 6: Complete all five domains at least once; score 75% or better on the 50-question cumulative set and produce the weak-topic list.

Week 8: Score 85% or better on a full-length timed exam and show a closed error log with no repeated error type.