AZ Property & Casualty study plan
AZ Property & Casualty · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.