Hawaii requires every public adjuster to file and maintain a $10,000 bond with the Insurance Commissioner under HRS 431:9-223 — ours is $300 flat, which is 3% of the bond amount. The application is five minutes, and license bonds like this are the fastest thing we issue.
















License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your Insurance Commissioner license application or renewal. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$10,000 bond × 3% = $300, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
A public adjuster bond is a policyholder-protection guarantee. You negotiate insurance claims on behalf of people who've just had a hard loss — Hawaii wants a financial backstop that you'll account honestly for every dollar of settlement money that passes through your hands.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the State of Hawaii (the obligee), with your clients as the protected parties. The bond is conditioned on your accounting to any insured whose claim you handle for moneys or settlements received in connection with the claim.
The bond must stay active for the life of your license. The statute even allows it to be written without an expiration date. We track it and notify you 60 and 30 days out, keeping your $10,000 filing continuous.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$300 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.