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WI Property & Casualty study plan

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

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

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

  • Map every Wisconsin-specific licensing, continuing-education, and producer-conduct requirement into a single reference sheet

  • Identify the Wisconsin rules governing policy cancellation, nonrenewal, and required notice periods for property and casualty lines

  • Differentiate the state's residual-market and guaranty-fund mechanisms from private market options

  • Define the fundamental insurance concepts of risk, indemnity, insurable interest, and contract characteristics using your own words

  • Classify insurers by structure and explain how each is regulated in Wisconsin

Your checkpoint

One-page Wisconsin numbers sheet (CE hours, license terms, cancellation/nonrenewal notice days, penalty ranges) plus a 40-question self-written quiz scored at 80% or higher on Domains 1-2

Week 2

Property Insurance Principles and Policy Basics & Homeowners and Dwelling Policies

  • Distinguish the property policy components of declarations, insuring agreement, conditions, and exclusions

  • Compare replacement cost, actual cash value, and functional valuation methods by applying each to a loss scenario

  • Differentiate perils insured against, named-peril, and open-peril (special) coverage forms

  • Construct the coverage-limit relationships among Coverage A, B, C, and D for both HO and DP forms

  • Select the correct homeowners form (HO-2, HO-3, HO-5, HO-8) for a given client profile

Your checkpoint

A one-page matrix of HO-2/HO-3/HO-5/HO-8 and DP-1/DP-3 showing perils covered, limits basis, and key exclusions, plus five fully worked coverage-limit problems

Week 3

Homeowners and Dwelling Policies & Commercial Property and Inland Marine Coverages

  • Apply common homeowners endorsements (water backup, scheduled personal property, ordinance or law, personal injury) to fact patterns

  • Explain how the dwelling policy differs from the homeowners policy in eligibility and perils

  • Break down the commercial property coverage forms: building and personal property, causes of loss, and business income

  • Compute coinsurance penalties and loss-settlement amounts for commercial property claims

  • Categorize inland marine floaters and identify which property exposures require them

Your checkpoint

Ten coinsurance and valuation calculations with all work shown at 85% accuracy, plus a coverage map linking ten sample property exposures to the correct form or floater

Week 4

Casualty Insurance Principles and Negligence/Liability Concepts & Commercial General Liability

  • List the four elements of negligence and apply each to a liability claim scenario

  • Evaluate the standard negligence defenses and explain comparative versus contributory fault

  • Distinguish occurrence from claims-made liability triggers, including retroactive dates and extended reporting periods

  • Outline Coverage A, B, and C of the commercial general liability policy and the limits structure for each

  • Identify who qualifies as an additional insured and how that status is granted

Your checkpoint

A recorded or written 10-minute teach-back explaining negligence and the CGL coverage structure, plus a 30-question domain quiz scored at 80% or higher

Week 5

Commercial General Liability & Personal and Commercial Automobile Insurance

  • Recite the major CGL exclusions and articulate why each exclusion exists

  • Sequence the six parts of the personal auto policy and describe what each part pays for

  • Explain the purpose of uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage and how the limits apply

  • Relate Wisconsin financial responsibility requirements to personal auto coverage selections

  • Apply the PAP definitions of covered auto, newly acquired auto, and non-owned auto to fact patterns

Your checkpoint

A 25-exclusion CGL flashcard set plus a hand-drawn personal auto declarations page reconstructed from memory that correctly labels every coverage part and limit

Week 6

Personal and Commercial Automobile Insurance & Workers' Compensation Insurance

  • Match business auto coverage symbols 1 through 9 to the autos each one designates

  • Compare garage, truckers, and motor carrier coverage needs against the business auto form

  • Enumerate the four workers' compensation benefit categories and cite Wisconsin-specific rules for each

  • Calculate a workers' compensation indemnity benefit from a given average weekly wage and disability rating

  • Explain the experience modification factor and Part Two employers liability in underwriting decisions

Your checkpoint

A symbols 1-9 table with a worked example for each, plus 15 workers' compensation benefit calculations scored at 85% or higher

Week 7

Other Casualty Coverages (umbrella/excess liability, crime, specialty liability) & Commercial Property and Inland Marine Coverages & Commercial General Liability

  • Differentiate umbrella from excess liability in drop-down, self-insured retention, and attachment mechanics

  • Identify the crime coverage insuring agreements and the fidelity versus forgery distinction

  • Compare professional liability, directors and officers, and employment practices liability exposures

  • Re-audit your two weakest domains from weeks 1-6 and close the gaps with targeted review

  • Diagnose every error on a full-length timed practice exam by domain and root cause

Your checkpoint

A full-length timed 150-question practice exam completed with a score of 75% or higher and an itemized error log assigning every miss to a domain and a cause

Week 8

Wisconsin Insurance Laws, Rules, and Regulations & Homeowners and Dwelling Policies & Personal and Commercial Automobile Insurance & Commercial General Liability

  • Recall the Wisconsin-specific numbers sheet without reference

  • Sit two full-length timed practice exams under test-day conditions

  • Re-solve every item from the week 7 error log until each is correct and explainable

  • Verify exam-day logistics including appointment, identification, and permitted materials

  • Consolidate the highest-yield distinctions into a single final review sheet

Your checkpoint

Two consecutive full-length practice exams scored at 85% or higher, with a completed error log showing zero unresolved items

Milestones

Week 2: Wisconsin numbers sheet is complete from memory and the Domain 1-2 quiz is at 80% or higher; the HO/DP comparison matrix is finished

Week 4: A cumulative practice exam covering Domains 1-6 is scored at 75% or higher, and the CGL/negligence teach-back is delivered without notes

Week 6: Business auto symbols and all four workers' compensation benefit categories are explained correctly on a blank sheet, with calculation accuracy at 85%

Week 8: Two full-length practice exams at 85% or higher with no unresolved error-log items, and the Wisconsin numbers sheet recited accurately