How to check
- Open Agent and Company Lookup, the Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner's own search.
- Search by the agent's name, or by their national producer number (NPN) or Washington license number if you have it. The NPN is the steadier search: names repeat, and a producer has one NPN in every state.
- Open the record and read the license type and its lines of authority, whether it is active, the expiration date, and the name on the record.
- Compare it with what the agent told you: the same name, the same NPN, and a line of authority that covers the kind of insurance you asked about.
What the record shows
A producer record in any state is built from the same parts, though each department decides how much of it to publish:
- The license type and its lines of authority, such as property, casualty, life or personal lines.
- Whether the license is active, and the dates it was issued and expires.
- The insurers the agent is appointed with, where the department publishes appointments.
- Disciplinary actions, where the department publishes them.
Washington's Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) keeps its license search in the Consumer Toolkit, under Agent and Company Lookup. You can search by name, WAOIC license number, NPN, city or type of license, and choose between all agents with a two-year history or active licenses only.
Washington calls health insurance disability, so a producer who sells health coverage holds the Disability line. Property and Casualty are separate lines on the Insurance Producer license, with Personal lines as a narrower authority for noncommercial coverage sold to individuals and families. Resident producers renew with 24 hours of continuing education, three of them in ethics; nonresidents renew without Washington's continuing education.
What we checked for Washington
- Department
- Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC)Source: fortress.wa.gov, checked 2026-09-22
- Official search
- Agent and Company Lookup in the OIC Consumer Toolkit (page heading: Look up an agent, agency or company), linked from insurance.wa.gov as fortress.wa.gov/oic/consumertoolkit/Search.aspxSource: insurance.wa.gov, checked 2026-09-26
- Help line
- 800-562-6900, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to FridaySource: insurance.wa.gov, checked 2026-09-26
- How to search
- Search by first or last name, WAOIC license number, NPN, city, DBA, type of license or type of insurance; choose all agents (two-year history) or active licenses onlySource: fortress.wa.gov, checked 2026-09-26
- Lines of authority
- Life; Disability; Property; Casualty; Variable life and variable annuity products; Personal lines; limited lines (surety, limited line credit, travel); specialty lines (portable electronics, rental car, self-service storage)Source: RCW 48.17.170, checked 2026-09-26
- Health is called disability
- Washington's health line of authority is named DisabilitySource: insurance.wa.gov, checked 2026-09-26
- Continuing education
- 24 credit hours per renewal for resident producers with life, disability, property, casualty or personal lines; 3 of them ethicsSource: insurance.wa.gov, checked 2026-09-26
- Nonresident licensing
- Nonresident individuals apply through NIPR; a nonresident licensed and in good standing in a home state that licenses Washington residents on the same basis receives the substantially equivalent lines (RCW 48.17.173). Nonresidents do not need Washington CE to renew.Source: insurance.wa.gov; RCW 48.17.173, checked 2026-09-26
- Filing a complaint
- OIC's File a complaint or check your complaint status pageSource: insurance.wa.gov, checked 2026-09-26
- Orders
- The lookup also searches orders the commissioner has issued, disciplinary or regulatorySource: insurance.wa.gov, checked 2026-09-26
Questions
Where do I look up an insurance agent's license in Washington?
On Agent and Company Lookup in the Office of the Insurance Commissioner's Consumer Toolkit. The OIC's consumer line is 800-562-6900, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday.
What does Disability mean on a Washington insurance license?
It is Washington's name for the health line of authority.
How do I file a complaint about an insurance agent in Washington?
On the OIC's File a complaint or check your complaint status page at insurance.wa.gov, or by calling 800-562-6900.
Other ways to check
- The National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR) assigns the NPN. Ask the agent for theirs; any licensed producer has one.
- For an agent licensed in several states, check each state on its own department's search. The fifty-state list has every department.
Lookup link last checked 2026-10-12; the department's entry in our list was confirmed on 2026-09-22.