Associate in Surplus Lines Insurance (ASLI)

The following courses (plus two electives) are required to earn the ASLI designation:

• ASLI 163—Surplus Lines Insurance Operations: Fundamentals of Surplus Lines Insurance Operations, Insurance Regulation, Surplus Lines Insurance Marketing, New Product and Program Development, Underwriting, Ratemaking, The Claim Function, Reinsurance, Financial Analysis of Insurers and Intermediaries, and Insurance Cycles and the Surplus Lines Market
• ASLI 164—Surplus Lines Insurance Products: Overview of Surplus Lines Insurance Products, General Liability, Professional Liability, Management Liability, Commercial Auto, Environmental, Excess and Umbrella Liability, Commercial Property, Business Income and Extra Expense, Commercial Crime, Aviation, Ocean Marine, Inland Marine, and Personal Insurance
• Plus, two elective courses from this list.

NOTE: The Registered Professional Liability Underwriter (RPLU) designation granted by the Professional Liability Underwriting Society satisfies both electives. Outside courses or programs are subject to a waiver application fee. Download the Institute Academic Request Form to apply for a waiver.

Program Options: The Associate in Surplus Lines Insurance designation program is available as a self-study program via printed textbooks and course guides.

Public classes at third-party providers may be available for ASLI courses.

We Recommend ASLI for: Agents/brokers, agency principals, claim adjusters, and line of business managers and executives in nonadmitted companies

Exam Information: ASLI exams are offered at Institutes-approved on-site testing locations and Prometric Testing Centers. Contact your education coordinator for further information about on-site testing availability.

ASLI exams consist of 85 objective questions and examinees have two hours to complete each exam. See electives for their exam information.

The Associate in Surplus Lines Insurance designation program consists of the following required courses:

ASLI 163—Surplus Lines Insurance Operations
ASLI 164—Surplus Lines Insurance Products

Plus, two elective courses from the list below:

CPCU 500—Foundations of Risk Management and Insurance
*CPCU 510—Foundations of Risk Management, Insurance, and Professionalism
CPCU 530—Business Law for Insurance Professionals
CPCU 540—Finance and Accounting for Insurance Professionals

AIS 25—Delivering Insurance Services (AIS)

AIC 30—Claims Handling Principles and Practices
AIC 31—Property Claim Practices
AIC 32—Liability Claim Practices
*AIC 33—Claim Handling Principles and Practices
*AIC 34—Workers’ Compensation and Managing Bodily Injury Claims
*AIC 35—Property Loss Adjusting
*AIC 36—Liability Claim Practices
AIC 37—Managing Bodily Injury Claims
AIC 38—Personal Auto Insurance and the Management of Bodily Injury Claims
AIC 39—Auto Liability Claims Practices

ARM 54—Risk Assessment
ARM 55—Risk Control
ARM 56—Risk Financing

AU 60—Commercial Underwriting Principles
AU 61—Underwriting Commercial Property
AU 62—Underwriting Commercial Liability
*AU 65—Commercial Underwriting: Principles and Property
*AU 66—Commercial Underwriting: Liability and Advanced Techniques
AU 67—Strategic Underwriting Techniques

AAI 83—Agency Operations and Sales Management

APA 91—Principles of Premium Auditing
APA 92—Premium Auditing Applications

AIAF 111—Statutory Accounting for Property-Casualty Insurers
AIAF 112—Insurance Information Systems
*AIAF 113 —Insurance Company Finance

AIT 132—Insurance Uses of Technology (AIT)
AIT 134—The Strategic Management of Information (AIT)

*ARe 141—Principles of Reinsurance
*ARe 142—Reinsurance Practices
†

*Course no longer offered, but satisfies ASLI elective requirements.
†May not be used in conjunction with ARe 141 or ARe 142 for the purposes of earning the ASLI designation.