CIRP Designation
Certified Insurance & Risk Professional Designation Program
The Certified Insurance & Risk Professional (CIRP) Designation Program was built in direct response to what our agency education managers across the country told us they needed. Commercial lines producers are being asked to deliver the same foundational expertise as top-tier customer service representatives—while also advising, selling, and leading client relationships. CIRP was designed to bridge that gap. It provides producers with the essential, client‑centric skills our industry relies on, framed specifically for the realities of today’s commercial marketplace.
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CIRP COURSES
Commercial Casualty I
This CISR Commercial Casualty I Course strengthens your ability to have productive, confident interactions with your commercial customers in the area of commercial casualty exposures and coverages. You’ll improve your understanding of legal liability and what creates liability exposures. The focus of this course is the Commercial General Liability Coverage Form. Also addressing additional insured exposures and the coverage available to meet them, the course provides a strong foundation that is valued by insurance professionals.
Topics include Essentials of Legal Liability, Commercial General Liability, and Additional Insureds.
Commercial Casualty II
This course, like Commercial Casualty I, expands your ability to have a confident relationship with your commercial customers in the area of commercial casualty exposures and coverages. In Commercial Casualty II, the focus is the Business Auto Policy, the Workers Compensation Policy, and Excess Liability Policies. You will improve your understanding in each of these vital areas.
Topics include Workers’ Compensation and Employers’ Liability, Introduction to Business Auto Coverage, and Excess Liability and Commercial Umbrella Policies.
Insuring Commercial Property
Commercial property insurance is one of your business customers’ greatest concerns. You’ll improve your cross-selling abilities with up-to-date knowledge of commercial property coverage and reduce E&O exposures. Insuring Commercial Property gives you the skills to address these issues with greater ease and confidence.
Topics include Fundamentals of Commercial Property Insurance, Building and Personal Property Coverage Form, Causes of Loss Forms, Basics of Time Element Insurance, and Basics of Commercial Inland Marine Insurance.
Elements of Risk Management
Knowing the types and classifications of exposures their clients face helps them to design more effective insurance and risk management programs. This course provides tools and techniques to identify exposures, assess their impact on clients’ assets and operations, consider a variety of loss funding/insurance options, control losses and claims, and finally to implement risk management and loss control procedures and monitoring their progress.
Topics include Introduction to Risk Management, Risk Identification, Risk Analysis, Risk Control, Risk Financing, and Risk Administration.
Dynamics of Selling for CIRP
This course develops essential communication and sales skills to uncover client needs, handle objections, and strengthen producer effectiveness.