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IA Property & Casualty study plan

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

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Dwelling and Homeowners Policies

  • Differentiate the HO-3, HO-4, HO-6, and HO-8 forms and state which occupancy each is written for

  • Calculate Coverage B, C, and D limits from a given Coverage A amount using the standard percentage relationships

  • Sort ten described loss scenarios into covered, limited, or excluded under an HO-3

  • Compute the payable amount on claims involving special limits such as money, jewelry, and silverware

Your checkpoint

Score at least 80% on a 40-question homeowners quiz, with every missed item logged alongside the correct rule.

Week 2

Personal Automobile Policy & Dwelling and Homeowners Policies

  • Map the four personal auto coverage parts (liability, medical payments, uninsured motorist, physical damage) to what each pays and who is insured

  • Apply Iowa financial responsibility minimum limits to two given loss scenarios and show what the policy pays versus the insured

  • Resolve three multi-vehicle or other-insurance scenarios using the policy's sharing and stacking provisions

  • Re-work the specific homeowners items missed in week 1 until each is answered correctly twice

Your checkpoint

A one-page personal auto coverage matrix completed from memory plus a 30-question PAP set scored at 80% or better.

Week 3

Property Insurance Principles and Coverages & Casualty Insurance Principles and Coverages

  • Define indemnity, insurable interest, actual cash value, replacement cost, coinsurance, and subrogation, and attach one worked example to each

  • Classify twelve loss scenarios as property or casualty and name the policy section that responds

  • Break a negligence claim into duty, breach, proximate cause, and damages

  • Compute the coinsurance penalty and recovery on six underinsured property losses

Your checkpoint

A completed problem set of six coinsurance calculations and twelve liability classifications, each with a written explanation of the reasoning.

Week 4

Commercial Property and Businessowners Coverage

  • Determine BOP eligibility for eight described businesses and justify each accept or decline decision

  • Compare building and personal property coverage, business income, and extra expense limits on the BOP form

  • Select the correct endorsement for four described commercial property gaps

  • Calculate the effect of coinsurance and the deductible on a commercial building loss

Your checkpoint

A blank BOP coverage comparison chart rebuilt from memory plus a 30-question commercial property quiz scored at 75% or better.

Week 5

Iowa Insurance Laws, Rules, and Producer Licensing & General Insurance Concepts and Policy Fundamentals

  • Outline the Iowa producer licensing sequence from prelicensing through appointment and renewal, listing the specific hour requirements

  • List Iowa continuing education requirements, including the ethics component and reporting cycle

  • Summarize Iowa prohibited acts, premium fiduciary duties, and the consequences of a violation

  • State Iowa notice rules for cancellation and nonrenewal of property and casualty policies, including the exceptions

  • Label the declarations, insuring agreement, conditions, exclusions, and endorsements on a sample policy

Your checkpoint

A handwritten Iowa rules cheat sheet covering licensing, CE, prohibited acts, and cancellation notice, plus 25 Iowa-specific questions scored at 80% or better.

Week 6

Commercial General Liability & Other Commercial Lines (Commercial Auto, Workers Compensation, Umbrella/Excess)

  • Contrast occurrence and claims-made CGL forms by explaining the coverage trigger, retroactive date, and extended reporting period

  • Identify the exposures insured under Coverage A, B, and C and match five standard CGL exclusions to described losses

  • Interpret business auto covered-auto symbols and list who qualifies as an insured

  • Summarize workers compensation benefits, employer's liability, and how an umbrella responds above underlying limits

Your checkpoint

A 35-question CGL and commercial lines quiz with every incorrect answer rewritten as a correct statement of the rule.

Week 7

Dwelling and Homeowners Policies & Personal Automobile Policy & Commercial Property and Businessowners Coverage & Commercial General Liability

  • Re-study the two lowest-scoring domains from the week 6 exam using targeted drills on the missed subtopics

  • Redo every previously missed question across all nine domains and explain each correction aloud

  • Practice the calculation types that appear most often: coinsurance, deductibles, special limits, and coverage-limit relationships

  • Build a personal list of the ten terminology pairs most often confused

Your checkpoint

A second 100-question mixed exam scored at 80% or better, with a one-page list of remaining gaps ranked by risk.

Week 8

Iowa Insurance Laws, Rules, and Producer Licensing & General Insurance Concepts and Policy Fundamentals & Dwelling and Homeowners Policies & Personal Automobile Policy

  • Drill Iowa law and general concepts items until accuracy reaches 90% on two consecutive passes

  • Complete two timed 100-question simulated exams under exam-day conditions

  • Verify that each remaining flagged concept can be explained in plain language without notes

  • Finalize exam-day logistics and a 48-hour light review schedule

Your checkpoint

Two timed practice exams scored at 85% or better, with every missed item corrected and explained in writing.

Milestones

Week 2: Reach 80% or better on both the homeowners and personal auto quizzes; if either falls short, repeat that domain's drills before starting week 3.

Week 4: Score at least 70% on a 50-question cumulative exam covering the homeowners, personal auto, property and casualty principles, and commercial property domains, and name the three weakest subtopics in writing.

Week 6: Score at least 75% on a full-length 100-question mixed exam with a per-domain score breakdown showing no domain below 65%.

Week 8: Score 85% or better on two timed 100-question simulated exams in a row, with zero repeated errors on the same concept.