Alabama licenses insurance premium finance companies through the Department of Insurance, and the Department's licensing instructions require a $35,000 surety bond with the application. The premium is 1% of the bond amount — $350 for the $35,000 bond — and the bond issues the moment you pay. Any credit screen is a soft pull only — it never affects your score.
















Premium finance license bonds are among the simplest filings in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details, an effective date, and a term. That is the entire application — no financials, and any credit screen is a soft pull that never shows as a hard inquiry.
This bond is checkout-priced at 1% of the bond amount — $350 — so it issues the moment you pay. Your executed bond and power of attorney generate on the spot.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to submit with your premium finance license application to the Alabama Department of Insurance. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
Alabama regulates insurance premium finance companies — the lenders that advance an insured's premium to the insurer and collect it back in installments — under Ala. Code § 27-40-1 et seq. A license from the Department of Insurance is required to engage in the business, and the Department's licensing instructions require a $35,000 surety bond written by a carrier licensed in Alabama.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the State of Alabama (the obligee). The bond stands behind your compliance with the premium finance chapter — the rate, notice, and cancellation rules that protect Alabama insureds who finance their premiums through you.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Premium finance licenses renew each October 1, so the bond has to stay continuously on file; we track the term and send renewal notices 60 and 30 days out.
These are the actual issuing fields — business details, an effective date, and a term. That is the entire application.
Start the application →$350 — 1% of the bond amount — issued the moment you pay, soft pull only. Free until issued.