The National Insurance Producer Registry’s (NIPR) online licensing products will help the surplus lines industry in each state to meet new federal financial services reform licensing and renewal regulatory requirements.

A New York insurance agent had his license reinstated in Virginia after regulators in that state found that a national licensing system failed to properly forward information he submitted about an administrative action.

The Virginia State Corporation Commission Bureau of Insurance has announced that insurance companies and producers can now print licenses online.

A national insurance producer registry, operated by an organization of state insurance commissioners, has processed its 100 millionth licensing transaction.

Agents and brokers can now access a new function of the National Insurance Producer Registry to report actions against them to jurisdictions across the United States.