Idaho - I looked into instructing in a couple privately owned cirruses (or is it cirri? lol) on the field where I'm at, and it sounds like most insurance companies want people to be a certified cirrus instructor. One of them was actually going to pay for me to get the CSIP training but you need to have 500TT and 250 given before you can become one .

There's got to be some insurance companies out there that don't require official cirrus training, but not the ones these people were working with. I have no idea if the Cessna 400 people have this kind of thing going on too.