About the MLISTM Program

Retail insurance agents and brokers will parlay their work on the MLIS program into more sales of lucrative D&O, E&O, and professional liability insurance lines. You will gain the confidence, competence and credibility to help you accomplish all the following and more:

• Explain to executives at privately-held companies why they should consider purchasing directors and officers liability, fiduciary, and employment practices liability insurance policies to protect their personal assets and those of their companies.
• Sell to accounts with heavy professional or management liability exposures that you felt incompetent to properly deal with prior to the program (e.g., banks, physicians, lawyers, accountants, clinics, and others).
• Find errors and problems in programs sold by your competitors to use as your lever for getting in the door of your target accounts.
• Approach publicly-held companies that previously intimidated you and impress them with your capabilities.
• Engage in constructive dialogue regarding these complex risks and lines of insurance with professional risk managers.
• Impress underwriters, convince them to write the accounts you bring them, and negotiate for important coverage enhancements for your clients.

With the MLIS certification behind your name, you make a statement to colleagues, clients, underwriters, and other insurance professionals that you understand the complexities of D&O, EPL, and fiduciary and many other professional liability risks and how to insure them.

E&O, management liability, and professional liability insurance policies are extremely complex, and it is easy to make errors when putting new programs together or renewing or replacing an existing program. Knowledge gained from the MLIS courses will help you eliminate dangerous coverage gaps and provide better protection for your clients

The specialized knowledge and credibility you gain from the MLIS program will make you a more valuable employee and help you achieve your career goals.

Why take the same old boring continuing education classes to meet the CE requirements to keep your license when you can learn something new that will increase your success as an agent or broker? With MLIS, you can simultaneously get convenient state insurance CE credit, add new capabilities to your skill set, and obtain an insurance industry certification all at once. And it does all of this at a surprisingly low cost and by requiring no time away from the office!

Nothing could be more embarrassing or career threatening to a risk manager than for a lawsuit against a director, officer, or fellow manager to be excluded under the D&O, fiduciary, EPLI, E&O, or professional liability policy purchased to cover that very type of claim. Yet, management liability, E&O, and professional liability insurance policies are so complex and there are so many variations in the marketplace that coverage gaps are commonplace. Knowledge gained from the MLIS courses will help you eliminate dangerous coverage gaps and provide better protection for your corporate directors, executives, and managers.

Since their personal assets are exposed to loss, corporate directors and officers are keenly interested in assuring the executive liability program purchased to protect them is adequate. With the MLIS certification behind your name, you make a statement that you understand their concerns and will take every step possible to make certain the insurance policies you buy will give them the protection they need and deserve. Knowing you are at the helm, they will get a nice quiet night’s sleep.

While assuring adequate coverage is probably your driving goal with your D&O, EPL, fiduciary, E&O, or professional liability insurance program, you also don’t want to waste money. The MLIS program will help you evaluate your firm’s loss exposures and better understand the underwriting and pricing process for these lines of insurance. With this knowledge, you will be a smarter and better insurance buyer.

By knowing the right questions to ask, where common problems occur, and something about what can be achieved in the marketplace, you can make certain your agent or broker knows his or her stuff and is properly handling these all important lines of insurance for you.

One of the most important keys to advancing your career as a professional risk manager is to continuously improve your knowledge and the confidence that others place in you. Thus, the specialized knowledge and credibility you gain from the MLIS program will make you a more valuable employee and help you achieve your career goals.

If you hold an insurance license, the MLIS courses can be used to fulfill the mandatory CE requirement in your state. Thus, the MLIS program serves triple duty by satisfying this requirement while adding new capabilities to your skill set, and providing you with a credibility building certification all at once. And it does all of this at a surprisingly low cost and by requiring no time away from the office!