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Massachusetts Property & Casualty Insurance License, Practice Exams

Massachusetts Property and Casualty producer licensing (Prometric Series 16-53 + 16-54; moving to Pearson VUE 22 Jul 2026). National P&C insurance knowledge plus Massachusetts law (compulsory 25/50/30 auto & PIP under c.90, the standard fire policy, the Insurers Insolvency Fund, FAIR plan and workers’ compensation under c.152), authored from public-domain statutes.
Content last updated 14 July 2026

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How is the Massachusetts producer licensing exam structured?

Massachusetts licenses Property producers and Casualty producers as separate exams of 100 scored questions each (2 hours, 70% to pass), moving from Prometric to Pearson VUE on 22 July 2026. This bank covers the national property & casualty material plus Massachusetts law - compulsory auto (the 25/50/30 minimum limits, PIP no-fault and the Massachusetts auto policy under c.90 and c.175), the standard fire policy, the Insurers Insolvency Fund, surplus lines and the FAIR plan, and workers' compensation under c.152.

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Sample Massachusetts Property & Casualty Insurance License practice questions

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Under M.G.L. c.175 §162M, the 'personal lines' line of authority is property and casualty coverage sold to...?

  1. businesses for commercial and professional operations
  2. groups through a master policy for their members
  3. individuals and families for primarily noncommercial purposes ✓
  4. any purchaser through a licensed rating organization

Why: M.G.L. c.175 §162M defines personal lines as property and casualty insurance coverage sold to individuals and families for primarily noncommercial purposes — therefore the third option is correct.

A boatowners or yacht policy typically combines which two coverage parts?

  1. Life and health
  2. Crop and flood
  3. Workers comp and surety unless an exception clearly applies for the coverage that is in force
  4. Hull (physical damage) and protection & indemnity (liability) ✓

Why: Yacht and boatowners policies pair hull coverage for physical damage to the vessel with protection and indemnity (liability) coverage.

A large, financially strong corporation chooses to retain its own workers' compensation risk and pay benefits directly, with state approval. This arrangement is called:

  1. Experience rating
  2. Monopolistic funding
  3. Assigned risk
  4. Self-insurance ✓

Why: Qualified self-insurance allows financially sound employers, with state approval and security/bonding, to pay WC benefits directly rather than buying a policy.

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Under M.G.L. c.175 §4D, insurers writing homeowners' insurance and the FAIR Plan must make available coverage for:

  1. Flood damage affecting residential basements and building foundations
  2. Earthquake damage to eligible one-to-four family dwelling structures
  3. Costs and third-party claims from a residential heating-oil tank release ✓
  4. Mold remediation that follows any otherwise covered water loss event

Why: M.G.L. c.175 §4D requires homeowners insurers and the JUA to make available first- and third-party coverage for a release of heating oil from a residential fuel tank — therefore that coverage.

Under M.G.L. c.175 §162V, a P&C producer must report an administrative action taken against him in another jurisdiction within 30 days of...?

  1. the date the action is first filed
  2. the producer's next license renewal
  3. the final disposition of the matter ✓
  4. the date the producer retains counsel

Why: M.G.L. c.175 §162V requires a producer to report an administrative action within 30 days of the final disposition of the matter — therefore the third option is correct.

An insurer refuses to settle a claim though its liability has become reasonably clear, forcing the insured to sue. Under M.G.L. c.176D §3, this is...?

  1. failing to effectuate a prompt, fair settlement ✓
  2. a lawful use of the insurer's appeal rights
  3. a permitted defense of a doubtful claim
  4. an acceptable request for more proof of loss

Why: M.G.L. c.176D §3(9)(f) lists failing to effectuate prompt, fair and equitable settlements of claims in which liability has become reasonably clear as an unfair claim settlement practice — therefore the first option is correct.

An insurer wishing to comply with GLBA must provide its initial privacy notice to a customer:

  1. Only upon cancellation unless an exception clearly applies for the coverage that is in force according to the insurer's rules
  2. Only after a claim
  3. At the time the customer relationship is established (and annually thereafter, as applicable) ✓
  4. Never

Why: GLBA requires delivery of a privacy notice when the customer relationship is established and, historically, an annual notice describing information-sharing practices.

A joint underwriting association (JUA) is best described as:

  1. A group of insurers that pool to provide coverage for a line that is otherwise hard to obtain, sharing profits and losses ✓
  2. A type of reinsurance treaty
  3. A single insurer writing all residual risks unless an exception clearly applies for the coverage that is in force according to the insurer's rules
  4. A federal agency that insures crops

Why: A JUA is a residual market in which multiple insurers join to provide a hard-to-place coverage (such as medical malpractice), sharing the resulting premiums, profits, and losses.

A Named Non-Owner policy is appropriate for a person who:

  1. Operates a taxi business
  2. Wants only comprehensive on a parked classic car unless an exception clearly applies for the coverage that is in force
  3. Owns several commercial trucks
  4. Does not own an auto but regularly drives borrowed or rented vehicles and needs liability coverage ✓

Why: A named non-owner policy provides liability (and related) coverage to an individual who does not own a vehicle but drives others' or rented cars.

Under c.152 §34, temporary total incapacity benefits are payable for a maximum of...?

  1. 260 weeks
  2. 520 weeks
  3. 104 weeks
  4. 156 weeks ✓

Why: c.152 §34 caps temporary total incapacity benefits at 156 weeks — therefore 156 weeks.

Under M.G.L. c.175 §32, before issuing a certificate, the commissioner must be satisfied a domestic company has employed, among others,...?

  1. at least three licensed resident producers
  2. a resident actuary in every line written
  3. an independent public insurance adjuster
  4. a competent accountant, claim manager and underwriter ✓

Why: M.G.L. c.175 §32 requires the company to have employed a competent accountant, a competent claim manager and a competent and experienced underwriter before the certificate issues — therefore the fourth option is correct.

An admitted (authorized) insurer is one that:

  1. Is incorporated outside the United States in that particular circumstance
  2. Sells only surplus lines coverage
  3. Is owned by its policyholders
  4. Has received a certificate of authority to do business in the state ✓

Why: An admitted or authorized insurer has been granted a certificate of authority by the state insurance department to transact business there.

A reciprocal insurer is best described as:

  1. An insurer owned by the federal government unless an exception clearly applies for the coverage that is in force
  2. A corporation owned by stockholders
  3. An unincorporated group of subscribers who insure one another, managed by an attorney-in-fact ✓
  4. A foreign insurer writing surplus lines

Why: A reciprocal or interinsurance exchange is an unincorporated association of subscribers who exchange insurance among themselves, administered by an attorney-in-fact.

Under c.175 §22E, an insurer may NOT refuse to issue or renew an auto policy because of the applicant's...?

  1. race, sex, age, occupation, or marital status ✓
  2. prior at-fault accidents in the last three years
  3. suspended driver's license or vehicle registration
  4. failure to pay the premium on a prior policy

Why: c.175 §22E prohibits refusal to issue or renew based on age, sex, race, occupation, marital status, or principal place of garaging — therefore those protected characteristics.

A contractor's CGL would NOT cover which of the following because of the 'your work' exclusion?

  1. Medical payments to an injured visitor
  2. The cost to repair the contractor's own defective workmanship on the completed project ✓
  3. Property damage to a neighbor's building
  4. Bodily injury to a passerby from falling debris unless an exception clearly applies for the coverage that is in force

Why: The 'your work' exclusion bars coverage for damage to the insured's own completed work; the CGL is not a warranty of workmanship.

Section 37 of c.152 (Second Injury Fund) requires that the employer, before the second injury, had...?

  1. insured the employee under a separate policy
  2. obtained the employee's signed liability waiver
  3. paid at least 104 weeks of prior benefits
  4. personal knowledge of the pre-existing impairment ✓

Why: c.152 §37 requires the employer to have had personal knowledge of the pre-existing physical impairment (obtained within 30 days of hiring or retention) to qualify for reimbursement — therefore prior personal knowledge of the impairment.

Which of the following is typically a FIRST-PARTY coverage under a cyber policy?

  1. Bodily injury liability
  2. Advertising injury
  3. Breach notification, credit monitoring, and data restoration costs for the insured ✓
  4. Defense of a third-party privacy lawsuit unless an exception clearly applies for the coverage that is in force

Why: First-party cyber coverages reimburse the insured's own costs, such as breach notification, forensics, and data restoration.

When an employer is held responsible for the negligent acts of an employee committed within the scope of employment, this is:

  1. Contributory negligence
  2. Vicarious liability ✓
  3. Absolute liability
  4. Strict liability

Why: Vicarious liability holds one party (e.g., an employer) responsible for the actions of another (e.g., an employee acting within the scope of employment).

Under c.90 §34K, a power of attorney to cancel a motor vehicle liability policy cannot be exercised until notice is given to the policyholder of at least...?

  1. 10 days by registered or certified mail ✓
  2. 20 days by regular first-class mail
  3. 30 days by registered or certified mail
  4. 15 days by regular first-class mail

Why: c.90 §34K requires at least 10 days' notice by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, before a power of attorney to cancel may be exercised — therefore 10 days by registered/certified mail.

Under M.G.L. c.176D §6, the notice of hearing on a charge of an unfair method or practice must set a hearing not less than...?

  1. 10 days after service of the notice
  2. 14 days after service of the notice
  3. 30 days after service of the notice
  4. 21 days after service of the notice ✓

Why: M.G.L. c.176D §6 requires the notice of hearing to be held at a time not less than twenty-one days after the date of service — therefore the fourth option is correct.

Suitability in insurance sales means a producer should:

  1. Always sell the highest-commission product in that particular circumstance
  2. Recommend products appropriate to the client's needs and circumstances ✓
  3. Sell only flood policies
  4. Avoid asking about the client's situation

Why: Suitability requires that recommendations fit the client's actual needs, financial situation, and objectives rather than the producer's compensation.

Builders Risk coverage typically ends when:

  1. The first inspection occurs unless an exception clearly applies for the coverage that is in force
  2. The contractor is paid
  3. The building is accepted/occupied, or the policy expires (whichever first) ✓
  4. Coverage never ends

Why: Builders Risk coverage typically terminates when the property is accepted by the owner, occupied, or the policy expires/is cancelled, whichever happens first.

Under M.G.L. c.175 §177B, an applicant for an insurance adviser license must, before licensure,...?

  1. hold an active producer license first
  2. complete two years of adjusting experience
  3. take a written examination the commissioner sets ✓
  4. post a bond approved by the commissioner

Why: M.G.L. c.175 §177B requires the applicant to appear and take a written examination prepared and administered by the commissioner or an independent testing service — therefore the third option is correct.

Under M.G.L. c.175 §32, a domestic company may not issue any policies until it has obtained from the commissioner...?

  1. an appointment from a licensed producer
  2. approval of its policy forms by the NAIC
  3. a certificate authorizing it to issue policies ✓
  4. a special broker license under §168

Why: M.G.L. c.175 §32 provides that no domestic company shall issue any policies until it has obtained a certificate from the commissioner authorizing it to make or issue such policies — therefore the third option is correct.

A heating contractor ships and installs a new furnace; the equipment is stolen from the job site before acceptance. Best coverage:

  1. Installation floater ✓
  2. Accounts receivable
  3. Ocean marine cargo
  4. Jewelers block

Why: An Installation floater covers materials and equipment during transit, storage, and installation until the work is accepted by the owner.

An insured carries $80,000 on contents valued at $100,000 with an 80% coinsurance clause. A $10,000 partial loss occurs (no deductible). The insurer pays:

  1. $8,000
  2. $9,000
  3. $7,500
  4. $10,000 ✓

Why: Required = 80% × $100,000 = $80,000. Insurance carried equals the requirement, so the full $10,000 loss is paid.

Under 211 CMR 131.00, Massachusetts homeowners insurance policies must include coverage for:

  1. Business personal property that is regularly used in a home-based business
  2. Ordinance-or-law upgrade costs following a covered loss
  3. Damage caused by the backup of sewers and of drains
  4. Liability for bodily injury that is caused by lead poisoning ✓

Why: 211 CMR 131.00 mandates that homeowners policies provide lead-poisoning liability coverage — therefore lead-poisoning bodily-injury liability must be included.

Builders Risk coverage is designed to insure:

  1. Loss of rents only
  2. A completed and occupied office tower
  3. A structure during the course of construction ✓
  4. Tools owned by a contractor at home

Why: Builders Risk insures buildings or structures while under construction, including materials and supplies intended to become part of the structure.

Under M.G.L. c.175 §168, a special insurance broker license issued by the commissioner:

  1. Remains permanent once the broker has passed the qualifying exam
  2. Must be renewed every two years by a written petition to the state
  3. Expires one year from issuance unless it is sooner suspended or revoked ✓
  4. Expires only when the broker stops writing surplus lines business

Why: M.G.L. c.175 §168 provides that the special broker license expires one year from issuance unless sooner suspended or revoked — therefore one year.

Unlike Part One, Part Two (Employers Liability) of the policy does include limits of liability. The three Part Two limits typically apply to:

  1. Medical, indemnity, and death benefits
  2. Temporary, permanent, and survivor benefits
  3. Per claim, per occurrence, and aggregate medical unless an exception clearly applies for the coverage that is in force
  4. Bodily injury by accident, bodily injury by disease per employee, and bodily injury by disease policy limit ✓

Why: Part Two shows three limits: bodily injury by accident (each accident), bodily injury by disease (policy limit), and bodily injury by disease (each employee).