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Texas Windstorm Insurance Association
TWIA Board adopts lower PML funding requirement for 2026 after legislative changes
25th February 2026
Following legislative reforms enacted in 2025 that lowered the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s required catastrophe funding level from a 1-in-100-year to a 1-in-50-year probable maximum loss (PML), TWIA’s board has adopted a $4.3 billion 1-in-50 PML for the 2026 storm season. A 1-in-50 PML represents a loss level with a ... Read the full article
TWIA’s 2026 reinsurance requirement could decline significantly as Texas eases funding rules
3rd October 2025
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has announced that its required reinsurance for the 2026 wind season could fall significantly to $2.3 billion, after recent legislative changes in Texas halved the state-mandated loss funding requirement. As we previously reported, Texas House Bill 3689 lowered the coverage standard from a 1-in-100-year ... Read the full article
TWIA could scale back reinsurance following loss funding mandate decrease
15th July 2025
A new law in Texas has significantly lowered the loss funding requirements for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA), shifting the standard from coverage for a 1-in-100-year storm event to just a 1-in-50-year event, meaning it may scale back its purchases of reinsurance and other forms of risk transfer. The Texas ... Read the full article
TWIA pays out $120m on Beryl claims, files for 10% rate increase
7th August 2024
As of August 5th, 2024, residual market insurer the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) had received over 27,000 claims for Hurricane Beryl and has made payment on more than 10,000 claims at a cost of roughly $120 million. Hurricane Beryl, the earliest Category 5 storm ever recorded which made three separate ... Read the full article
TWIA aims to reduce future reinsurance purchases following record 2024
22nd May 2024
The staff of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) plan to recommend that lawmakers consider new ways to reduce the insurer of last resort's future reinsurance purchases following its largest reinsurance purchase on record in 2024, driven by significant exposure growth. Of TWIA's record $6.5 billion funding tower for 2024, ... Read the full article
TWIA has enough support to finalise reinsurance renewal in next few days
7th May 2024
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has secured enough support to complete its reinsurance renewal in the coming days, and its broker Gallagher Re will work with staff to get lines signed, it was revealed today during a TWIA Board meeting. Earlier this year, TWIA’s Board approved the insurers 1-in-100 ... Read the full article
TWIA reinsurance renewal proceeds at pace. $750m placed, plus $1.4bn cat bond
3rd May 2024
With the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) requiring its largest reinsurance purchase on-record given its significant exposure growth, the residual market insurer is making rapid progress, with $750 million of its traditional reinsurance needs already secured in April. That is on top of a $1.4 billion Alamo Re 2024-1 catastrophe ... Read the full article
Exposure growth could see TWIA look to increase reinsurance limit by 66% for 2024
12th February 2024
Policies in-force at the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) continue to rise, and combined with inflationary effects pushing up exposed values, the insurer of last resort might look to secure a 65.7% increase in reinsurance limit for 2024. In December, we reported that TWIA had been advised to commence the ... Read the full article
TWIA to start reinsurance renewal process amid need for additional $1bn in limit for 2024
13th December 2023
Staff at the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) explained that the wind and hail insurer of last resort for the state of Texas requires approximately $1 billion more in reinsurance funding for 2024 when compared with 2023, as exposure growth persists. TWIA's Board noted previously that the insurer would need ... Read the full article
TWIA advised to commence 2024 reinsurance placement as soon as possible
5th December 2023
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has been advised by its reinsurance broker to begin the planning and purchase of its reinsurance as soon as possible, with the state's insurer of last resort potentially needing to buy more than $3 billion in limit for 2024 as exposure growth continues and ... Read the full article
TWIA to increase reinsurance limit in 2024 to support exposure growth
1st November 2023
Despite its reinsurance attaching higher due to growth in the Catastrophe Reserve Trust Fund (CRTF), the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) expects to need additional reinsurance limit for 2024 as exposure growth persists. TWIA, the Texas wind and hail insurer of last resort, is expecting annual exposure growth of 28.2% in ... Read the full article
TWIA finalises reinsurance and risk transfer placement for 2023 wind season
23rd May 2023
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has now finalised its reinsurance and risk transfer for the 2023 wind season, with its tower placed to the targeted $4.508 billion after the insurer secured an additional $1.043 billion of traditional reinsurance. As we wrote previously, TWIA was in the market for an ... Read the full article
TWIA needs $1.043bn of fresh reinsurance for 2023 as Board rejects ILW option
19th April 2023
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) needs to procure $1.043 billion of new traditional reinsurance limit at the mid-year renewals to take its 2023 tower to the 1-in-100 level of $4.508 billion, with the Board recently declining an industry-loss warranty (ILW) option for the top of its tower. Previously, TWIA's Board ... Read the full article
TWIA targets $2.9bn in reinsurance for 2023 storm season, taking total funding to $5.2bn
20th January 2023
The Board of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has voted to purchase $2.9 billion in reinsurance for 2023, which combined with $2.28 billion in statutory funding, would take the association's total funding for the upcoming storm season to $5.2 billion. During yesterday's meeting, the Board voted to establish TWIA's 1:100 ... Read the full article
Early indications suggest TWIA could need ~$3bn of reinsurance for 2023 wind season
4th November 2022
Earlier this week, Stuart Harbour, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA), presented preliminary reinsurance projections to the Board, which show that the entity could purchase significantly more reinsurance protection for 2023. According to the data, which is not an official budget but based on the output ... Read the full article
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