CISR Other Personal

It is a 1-hour proctored final exam taken after the course, in multiple-choice format. Passing the exam is required to earn designation credit for the course. The same 1-hour proctored final exam applies whether you took the self-paced online course, the instructor-led webinar, or the in-person classroom session.

Self-paced online courses are accessible by computer, tablet, or cell phone 24/7, with a 60-day period to complete. You can stop and start sessions anytime and your place is saved. Note that notebooks and other documents are currently not optimized for reading on your phone, so plan to use a larger screen for those.

CISR is an intermediate-level program and assumes working knowledge of the applicable policies. Other Personal Lines Solutions builds on the homeowners and personal auto foundation, so the Alliance recommends taking it after Insuring Personal Residential Property and Insuring Personal Auto Exposures. Candidates without that base typically find the exclusions and limitations analysis harder.

The source material does not publish a retake policy, exam question count, or passing score, so confirm those details with the program sponsor directly before you register. What the source does state is that passing the 1-hour proctored final exam is required to earn designation credit for the course.

For this course, the Alliance recommends Insuring Personal Residential Property and Insuring Personal Auto Exposures first. More broadly, you must pass five of the nine courses within three calendar years following the year you pass your first exam, so sequence your five with the personal lines foundation courses early and this one after them.

Five areas: business activities of personal lines clients, including in-home business exposures and methods of insuring them; recreational lines, including recreational vehicles and watercraft; personal umbrella/excess liability concepts and policy comparisons; personal lines catastrophe coverage and mitigation resources; and personal lines emerging risks and how the risk management process applies to them.

The course centers on coverage exclusions and limitations in the ISO Homeowners 3 – Special Form and the ISO Personal Auto Policy. Candidates who memorize coverage grants but skip the exclusions, or who have not recently read the current forms, tend to miss questions on business activities, watercraft, and umbrella/excess differences.

State CE credit is approved in all states for CISR courses. Specific credit amounts vary by state, so check the CE Guide for your state before registering. The course consists of 7 hours of instruction regardless of the delivery format you choose: self-paced online, instructor-led webinar, or in-person classroom.

Once you earn the designation, you must meet an annual update requirement. A qualifying 7-hour CISR course, classroom or online, satisfies your annual update with no dues required. Other options include two 4-hour PRO C.E. courses, or CIC, CRM, or CPRM courses, which satisfy up to two years of update credit.

CISR Elite is an advanced distinction available after you earn the CISR designation. You achieve it by attending the four remaining CISR courses and passing their exams within a three-year period. Since the program has nine courses and the designation requires five, the remaining four are what complete the Elite status.