Insurance Adjuster, Counselor, and Solicitor Applicants: Important information regarding background questions – what you need to know BEFORE you apply.
As part of the application process you are required to answer several background information questions, which the Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR) reviews. In addition to reviewing the application, OFIR performs several background checks on each applicant.
General Background Question Information
You are responsible for your application and the information provided in the application, even if someone else completes the application for you.
If you answer “YES” to a background question you must provide complete details and documentation as requested in the application. If necessary, OFIR may request additional documentation.
If you answer “NO” and we later find the answer should have been “YES,” your application will be denied.
Criminal Conviction Information
All* convictions must be reported, including:
- Misdemeanors, felonies and/or military offenses.
- Having a judgment withheld or deferred (commonly seen as adjudication withheld or judgment deferred).
- Having a current or pending charge of committing a crime.
- Felony traffic offenses.
- Guilty conviction.
- Offense where a plea of guilty or nolo contendre was entered.
- Offense where probation was given.
- Offense where a suspended sentence was given.
- Offense where a fine was given.
* The ONLY exceptions are:
- Misdemeanor traffic offenses
- Misdemeanor crimes committed while a juvenile.
- Juvenile “adjudications.”
- Crimes that have been “set aside” or expunged by the court. (This is not an automatic process and does not “just happen” after five or ten years. You must petition the court to have convictions “set aside” or expunged.)
If you have had a judgment withheld or deferred, we will need documentation showing that you completed the court requirements (probation, community service, etc.) and documentation of the final disposition.
If you do not disclose a conviction on your application and one is found during the background investigation, the failure to disclose is a reason to deny you a license.
Felony Conviction Information
Instructions for setting aside a Michigan crime: http://courts.michigan.gov/Administration/SCAO/Forms/courtforms/generalcriminal/mc227.pdf
If your crime occurred in another state, contact the convicting court.
Administrative Action Information
All* administrative action must be reported, including:
- Having a license censured
- Having a license suspended
- Having a license cancelled
- Having a license terminated
- Being assessed a fine
- Receiving a cease and desist order
- Receiving a compliance order
- Receiving a prohibition order
- Surrendering a license to resolve an administrative action
- Being party to an administrative or arbitration hearing
- Violating any insurance laws or violating any regulation, subpoena, or order of the commissioner or of another state’s insurance commissioner
- Having an insurance producer license or its equivalent denied or revoked
*The only exceptions are terminations due solely to noncompliance with continuing education or failure to pay a renewal fee.
Child Support Information for Individual Applicants
In Michigan, if you are not in compliance with a child support obligation, you will not receive a license.
If you have an obligation in arrearage, you will need to provide proof of compliance, which could include one or more of the following:
- Proof of current payments
- Statement of compliance from court
- Updated repayment agreement
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