AL| The Alabama Department of Insurance has announced, through Bulletin 2025-06, that effective January 1, 2026, all Alabama-licensed surplus line brokers and non-admitted carriers writing surplus line business in the state must use the SLIP for States platform for reporting and payment of surplus line policy data and taxes, replacing the NAIC’s OPTins platform.
Key Points:
- All new surplus line policies and endorsements effective on or after January 1, 2026, must be reported and remitted via SLIP for States, with a 6% tax and a 0.175% transaction fee, payable by ACH Debit in the platform; policies effective before that date are to be reported on the legacy system.
- Registration for SLIP for States is required only for brokers not already in the system, and while taxes are due annually by March 1, quarterly payments are highly recommended, with detailed quarterly and annual reporting deadlines provided in the bulletin.