Get appointed
You must be appointed by Minnesota Life Insurance Company and/or Securian Life Insurance Company in order to sell our annuities. Minnesota Life Insurance Company issues our annuities in all states except New York. In New York, products are issued by Securian Life Insurance Company, a New York authorized insurer.
To get appointed, please provide the following:
Forward your completed appointment form and supporting documents to your broker-dealer. After they have authorized the appointment request, they should mail or fax the paperwork to Securian Financial.
General licensing guidelines
Any individual soliciting insurance products must be licensed and appointed as follows:
- in the state where the broker resides,
- in the state where the contract owner resides, and
- in the state where the contract owner signs the application.
Pre-appointment states
Minnesota Life issues products in the following states currently classified as a pre-appointment states:
- Pennsylvania — an appointment must be approved before first solicitation occurs for all products.
- Wisconsin — an appointment must be approved before solicitation of annuity and long-term care products (this includes life insurance products with long-term care features of Life products that have the LTC Agreement).
Applications received that are signed prior to the financial professional's appointment effective date in these states will not be accepted and will be returned.
Concurrent submission states
All others states are considered concurrent submission states. These states do not require a financial professional to be appointed prior to submitting the first contract application to the issuing company.
If we receive completed appointment paperwork at the same time an application is submitted and we determine that our primary appointment criteria has been met, we will begin our review of the application and file a notice of appointment.
For brokers contracting with us, please note that any assignee must be licensed in the assignee's resident state.
