Membership Applications

Firms interested in NAPSLO membership must submit a completed application and related materials (See application for list of required materials). Please select the appropriate application from the following section to download. Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe, is required to view the application. 

The NAPSLO Board approved several changes in November 2002 regarding the membership criteria for Wholesale Brokers, Company, and Underwriting Manager members. Please review the criteria pages of the application packet.

NOTE: Please complete the application that appropriately reflects the structure and focus of your organization. Application files  below are large PDF files and may take a minute to download.

Wholesale Brokers are sole proprietorships, partnerships or corporations licensed in at least one jurisdiction within the United States or Canada as a broker, agent or managing general agent engaged in an insurance business principally as a wholesaler.

Company members are risk-bearing insurer incorporated or organized in any state in the United States or in Canada and engaged in the writing of insurance principally through wholesale brokers/agents.

Underwriting Managers have specific underwriting authority for one or more companies in specified classes of business and in designated geographical areas.

Associates are individuals, firms or organizations that do not qualify for voting membership, but supply services to voting members and supports the wholesale excess/surplus lines system, or a company or wholesale broker/agent who is not incorporated or organized in any state in the United States or in Canada. 

Please review the entire application and note what additional items are required to be submitted to complete the application file. Incomplete files will not be reviewed.           

Deadlines to submit completed application files are:

• May 9, 2006 for review in June 2006                
• August 1, 2006 for review in September 2006