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OR Property & Casualty study plan

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

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Oregon Insurance Laws, Rules, and Regulations

  • Map the Oregon producer licensing lifecycle: prelicensing, exam, application, appointment, and renewal steps

  • List Oregon continuing-education hour requirements, deadlines, and the recordkeeping the producer must maintain

  • Define each unfair trade practice and unfair claims settlement practice named in Oregon insurance regulation, with one concrete example of each

  • Identify Oregon-specific notice, cancellation, nonrenewal, and proof-of-loss timelines that differ from general industry norms

  • Locate the Oregon statutes and administrative rules that govern producer conduct and cite them by topic area

Your checkpoint

A 50-question Oregon laws and rules practice set, scored with a written list of every missed item and the rule that answers it.

Week 2

Oregon Insurance Laws, Rules, and Regulations & General Insurance Principles and Concepts

  • Explain Oregon residual market and guaranty mechanisms, including which lines and losses each one does and does not cover

  • Differentiate Oregon rules for personal lines versus commercial lines cancellation and nonrenewal notice

  • Describe how Oregon treats premium finance, rebating, fiduciary handling of premiums, and commission sharing

  • Build the foundational vocabulary: risk, peril, hazard, pure versus speculative risk, indemnity, insurable interest, and the elements of a valid contract

  • Distinguish the four ways a contract can be void, voidable, or unenforceable and match each to an insurance scenario

  • Explain the roles of the producer, the insurer, the insured, and the beneficiary in the formation and performance of a policy

Your checkpoint

A one-page Oregon rules quick-reference sheet plus a 25-question general principles quiz at 80% or better.

Week 3

Property Insurance Principles, Coverages, and Policy Provisions

  • Reconstruct the homeowners policy structure from memory: declarations, insuring agreement, coverage parts A through F, conditions, and endorsements

  • Compare HO-2, HO-3, HO-4, HO-5, HO-6, and HO-8 by eligible risk, perils insured against, and coverage triggers

  • Distinguish open-peril from named-peril treatment and identify which coverage parts use each

  • Itemize the standard homeowners exclusions and the exceptions that restore coverage

  • Apply special limits of liability to specific categories of personal property

Your checkpoint

A blank-page reconstruction of an HO-3 policy, with every coverage part, limit type, and exclusion checked against the source text.

Week 4

Property Insurance Principles, Coverages, and Policy Provisions

  • Solve coinsurance, loss-settlement, and deductible problems for both replacement cost and actual cash value

  • Explain the mortgagee clause, loss payable clause, and appraisal and salvage provisions in a property claim

  • Compare dwelling, commercial property, business income, and inland marine coverages by exposure and gap filled

  • Describe how Oregon-specific property requirements interact with standard policy conditions

  • Interpret ordinance-or-law, debris removal, and collapse provisions under a total loss scenario

Your checkpoint

A timed 100-question full-length practice exam covering domains 1 through 3, with a scored error log by sub-topic.

Week 5

Casualty Insurance Principles, Coverages, and Policy Provisions

  • Break negligence into its four elements and apply comparative and contributory fault rules to claim scenarios

  • Reconstruct the personal auto policy: liability, medical payments, uninsured and underinsured motorist, physical damage, and the exclusions and conditions of each

  • Contrast the PAP with the homeowners Section II liability coverage for a loss that could fall under both

  • Identify Oregon minimum financial responsibility requirements and how they affect UM/UIM and proof-of-coverage questions

  • Determine who qualifies as an insured under each auto coverage part

Your checkpoint

A coverage-by-coverage PAP and homeowners Section II comparison chart plus a 40-question auto and liability quiz.

Week 6

Casualty Insurance Principles, Coverages, and Policy Provisions

  • Distinguish commercial general liability Coverage A, B, and C, including the occurrence versus claims-made trigger and the retroactive date

  • Apply the additional insured, other insurance, and subrogation conditions to a multi-party claim

  • Explain Oregon workers compensation coverage structure, employer obligations, and the exclusive remedy concept

  • Compare umbrella and excess liability coverage and identify where each sits in a layered program

  • Classify a liability loss as premises, operations, products-completed operations, or personal and advertising injury

Your checkpoint

A 100-question practice exam weighted to casualty, with every missed question traced to a specific policy provision or Oregon rule.

Week 7

General Insurance Principles and Concepts & Property Insurance Principles, Coverages, and Policy Provisions & Casualty Insurance Principles, Coverages, and Policy Provisions

  • Revisit domain 2 concepts through exam-style questions rather than notes, and close any remaining gaps

  • Drill the policy-provision vocabulary that appears across property and casualty: conditions, warranties, representations, concealment, waiver, estoppel

  • Answer mixed 25-question sets that alternate domains so switching cost is practiced, not just content recall

  • Rewrite every note card that has produced more than two misses into a single clear rule statement

Your checkpoint

Three mixed 25-question timed sets at 85% or better, with all note cards rebuilt.

Week 8

Oregon Insurance Laws, Rules, and Regulations & Property Insurance Principles, Coverages, and Policy Provisions & Casualty Insurance Principles, Coverages, and Policy Provisions

  • Complete two full-length timed practice exams under exam-day conditions and log every error by domain and sub-topic

  • Re-drill only the sub-topics that produced errors in week 7 and week 8

  • Recite Oregon timelines, notice rules, and financial responsibility limits aloud without notes

  • Confirm exam-day logistics and build a pacing plan for the number of questions per hour

Your checkpoint

Final full-length practice exam at 85% or better with a written one-page summary of the remaining weak sub-topics.

Milestones

Week 2: Oregon laws and rules practice set at 80% or better, and the quick-reference sheet covers licensing, CE, trade practices, and notice timelines.

Week 4: Full-length practice exam 1 completed; domains 1 and 3 both at 80% or better.

Week 6: Casualty practice exam at 80% or better; domains 1, 3, and 4 each have a documented score.

Week 8: Two final full-length exams at 85% or better, with at least 8 hours of sleep and no new material introduced in the last 48 hours.