What are NIPR, PDB and the NIPR Gateway?
• NIPR (National Insurance Producer Registry) is a non-profit affiliate of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). It was established in October 1996 to develop and operate a national repository for producer license information (PDB) and establish a network to facilitate the electronic exchange of producer information. • The Producer Database (PDB) is an electronic database consisting of information relating to insurance agents and brokers (producers) accessible through the NIPR Gateway on a subscription basis through the Internet. Internet PDB links participating state regulatory licensing systems into one common system establishing a repository of producer information. Internet PDB also contains or references producer information from sources such as the Regulatory Information Retrieval System (RIRS) of the NAIC. Its development is based, in part, on the belief that the widespread availability of such information will make it more difficult for a producer with sig
