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CT Property & Casualty study plan

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

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

General Insurance Concepts & Property Insurance Basics

  • Define the characteristics of an insurable risk and classify ten given exposures as insurable or non-insurable.

  • Explain indemnity, insurable interest, utmost good faith, subrogation, and contract of adhesion, and match each principle to a specific policy clause that implements it.

  • Diagram the anatomy of a property policy (declarations, insuring agreement, conditions, exclusions, definitions) and locate where each principle lives inside it.

  • Compute actual cash value losses and coinsurance penalties for five scenarios without referencing notes.

Your checkpoint

A one-page policy-structure and loss-valuation cheat sheet, plus ten solved ACV/coinsurance problems scored at 80% or higher.

Week 2

Casualty Insurance Basics & Dwelling Policy

  • Break down the four elements of negligence, proximate cause, and comparative versus contributory negligence, then apply them to three liability fact patterns.

  • Distinguish absolute, strict, and vicarious liability and supply an original example of each from everyday commerce.

  • Differentiate the DP-1, DP-2, and DP-3 forms by perils basis and identify which perils are named versus open perils.

  • State Dwelling policy eligibility, occupancy rules, and the percentage-based sublimits without referencing notes.

  • Compare how a Dwelling form and a Homeowners form would respond to the same three claim scenarios.

Your checkpoint

A side-by-side DP-1/DP-2/DP-3 comparison table plus written answers to five dwelling-eligibility scenarios.

Week 3

Homeowners Policy

  • Map HO-2, HO-3, HO-4, HO-5, HO-6, and HO-8 to their eligible risks and perils basis without notes.

  • Recite Coverages A through F and the special limits of liability for money, securities, theft of jewelry, and business property.

  • Apply Section II Coverages E and F to four fact patterns, correctly separating personal liability from medical payments to others.

  • Explain the commonly tested exclusions and endorsements, including ordinance or law, water damage, and scheduled personal property.

Your checkpoint

A completed 25-question Homeowners practice set with every missed item entered into an error log and the governing rule cited.

Week 4

Personal Automobile Policy

  • Deconstruct PAP Parts A through D, and convert a split limit such as 100/300/50 into per-person, per-occurrence, and property damage components.

  • Apply the definition of insured to named insured, resident relatives, and permissive users across four scenarios.

  • Contrast uninsured motorist, underinsured motorist, medical payments, and no-fault/PIP benefits, and identify the liability limits Connecticut requires.

  • List the major policy exclusions and the endorsements that restore or modify coverage, including named non-owner and miscellaneous type vehicle.

Your checkpoint

A completed PAP coverage matrix plus a handwritten list of the core exclusions, evidenced by ten practice questions answered at 80% or higher.

Week 5

Commercial Package Policy

  • Explain how a commercial package policy is assembled from coverage parts, declarations, conditions, and interline endorsements.

  • Identify the commercial property coverage forms for building and personal property, business income, and extra expense, and describe their valuation and coinsurance mechanics.

  • Compare the occurrence versus claims-made liability triggers on a timeline and distinguish CGL Coverages A, B, and C.

  • Differentiate additional insured, waiver of subrogation, and primary/noncontributory endorsements by function and by who benefits.

Your checkpoint

A one-page occurrence-versus-claims-made timeline diagram plus 15 solved commercial practice questions at 80% or higher.

Week 6

Businessowners Policy & Workers' Compensation and Employer's Liability

  • Identify businessowners policy eligibility rules and the property and liability coverages included, then name businesses that must be written on a commercial package policy instead.

  • Separate Part One (workers compensation), Part Two (employer's liability), and Part Three (other states) by what each pays and who it protects.

  • Classify workers compensation benefits into medical, disability income, death, and rehabilitation categories, and compute a disability benefit from a given average weekly wage and statutory percentage.

  • Explain the exclusive remedy doctrine and how the experience modification factor changes an employer's premium.

Your checkpoint

A workers compensation benefits flowchart plus three solved disability-benefit calculations and a 10-question BOP/WC quiz at 80% or higher.

Week 7

Other Coverages and Insurance Options & Insurance Regulation

  • Match inland marine, flood, earthquake, umbrella/excess liability, and residual market mechanisms to ten described coverage-gap scenarios.

  • Explain the purpose of professional liability, directors and officers, employment practices, and cyber coverage in one sentence each.

  • Outline producer licensing, appointment, continuing education, and fiduciary handling of premiums.

  • Summarize solvency regulation, guaranty association protection, rate filing, and unfair trade practices from memory.

Your checkpoint

A ten-scenario coverage-gap matching worksheet scored 100%, plus a 15-question regulation quiz at 85% or higher.

Week 8

Homeowners Policy & Personal Automobile Policy & Commercial Package Policy

  • Retake every domain quiz and rank domains from weakest to strongest by percentage correct.

  • Re-study the three weakest domains and rewrite each missed question's governing rule in your own words.

  • Complete two timed 100-question mixed practice exams under test-day conditions with no notes.

  • Recite the limits, sublimits, and deductible features of each major policy form from memory.

Your checkpoint

Two timed practice exams with scores of 80% or higher and no single domain below 70%, plus a final one-page limits-and-numbers sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: Score 80% or higher on a 20-question quiz covering domains 2 through 5, and reproduce the DP-1/DP-2/DP-3 comparison table from memory in under five minutes.

Week 4: Score 80% or higher on a 50-question mixed quiz spanning domains 3 through 7, with the error log showing no more than five unresolved concept gaps.

Week 6: Average 80% or higher across all domain quizzes taken so far, and complete every coinsurance and disability-benefit calculation without a formula sheet.

Week 8: All 11 domains covered at least once; two timed 100-question exams at 80% or higher with no domain below 70%.