(A)

(1) No agent shall sell, solicit, or negotiate long-term care insurance on or after September 1, 2008, without completing an initial eight-hour partnership program training course as described in division (B) of this section.

(2)

(a) Any agent that sells, solicits, or negotiates any long-term care insurance shall complete at least four hours of continuing education in every twenty-four-month period commencing on the first day of January of the year immediately following the year of the issuance of the agent's license.

(b) No agent shall fail to complete the continuing education requirements in division (A)(2)(a) of this section in the twenty-four-month period described in that division.

(B) The initial training course and continuing education required under division (A) of this section may be approved by the superintendent of insurance as continuing education courses under sections 3905.481 to 3905.486 of the Revised Code and shall consist of combined topics related to long-term care insurance, long-term care services, and state long-term care insurance partnership programs, including all of the following:

(1) State and federal regulations and requirements and the relationship between state long-term care insurance partnership programs and other public and private coverage of long-term care services, including medicaid;

(2) Available long-term care services and providers;

(3) Changes or improvements in long-term care services or providers;

(4) Alternatives to the purchase of private long-term care insurance;

(5) The effect of inflation on benefits and the importance of inflation protection;

(6) Consumer suitability standards and guidelines;

(7) Any other topics required by the superintendent.

(C) The initial training and continuing education required by division (A) of this section shall not include training that is specific to a particular insurer or company product or that includes any sales or marketing information, materials, or training other than those required by state or federal law.

(D) A resident agent shall satisfy the training and continuing education required by division (A) of this section by completing long-term care courses that are approved by the superintendent. A nonresident agent may satisfy the training and continuing education required by division (A) of this section by completing the training requirements in any other state, provided that the course is approved for credit by the insurance department of that state prior to the agent taking the course.

(E) Each insurer shall obtain records of the initial training and continuing education completed by agents of that insurer pursuant to division (A) of this section as well as the training completed by the insurer's agents concerning the distribution of the insurer's partnership program policies and shall make those records available to the superintendent upon request.

(F) Each insurer shall maintain records with respect to the training of its agents concerning the distribution of the insurer's partnership program policies. Each insurer shall provide documentation to the superintendent that will allow the superintendent to provide assurance to the medicaid director that agents have received the training required by this section and that agents have demonstrated an understanding of the partnership program policies and their relationship to public and private coverage of long-term care in this state, including medicaid. The superintendent may audit each insurer's records annually to verify that the insurer is maintaining the records required by this division. The superintendent shall make the records provided to the superintendent pursuant to division (E) of this section available to the director.

Amended by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.

Effective Date: 2007 HB100 09-10-2007; 2008 HB562 09-22-2008