Public Invited to Comment as TWIA Actuarial & Underwriting Committee Meets to Develop Rate Recommendation

Published on: June 28, 2023

Essential Information:

  • TWIA’s Actuarial & Underwriting Committee will meet on July 11 to consider developing a recommendation to the TWIA Board on rates.
  • Access the meeting agenda and materials.
  • TWIA’s 2023 Rate Adequacy Analysis indicates that current rates are inadequate by 20 percent for residential coverage and 22 percent for commercial coverage.
  • Members of the public can provide written comment via email before the meeting or provide in-person or virtual comment at the meeting.

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s (TWIA) Actuarial & Underwriting Committee will meet on Tuesday, July 11 at 10:00 am CT. The meeting agenda and materials are available.

The Committee will review the 2023 Rate Adequacy Analysis prepared by the Association’s actuarial staff, receive public comment, and consider whether to recommend a change in rates to TWIA’s Board of Directors. The Rate Adequacy Analysis indicates that TWIA’s current rates are inadequate by 20 percent for residential coverage and 22 percent for commercial coverage.

On August 8, 2023, the TWIA Board will meet in Galveston to consider the rate adequacy analysis, the Committee’s recommendation, and stakeholder feedback when voting to decide on the Association’s annual required rate filing. A timeline of TWIA’s 2023 annual rate filing consideration process is available.

All meetings of the TWIA Board of Directors and its committees are open to the public. The public may attend and make public comment for this meeting in person at TWIA’s office in Austin or virtually via Zoom. Members of the Committee and staff may participate in the meeting in person or virtually. The meeting will also be livestreamed on YouTube.

Providing Public Comment to the Committee

Members of the public can submit written comments via email at PublicComment@TWIA.org. Interested parties are encouraged to submit comments by noon on Friday, July 7, to enable the Committee to receive and review them before the July 11 meeting. TWIA staff will provide the Committee with all written comments regardless of when the Association receives them.

Written comments submitted to TWIA are subject to the Texas Public Information Act. TWIA will post public comments received, with personally identifiable information redacted, at the bottom of this page.

Members of the public can provide verbal comments to the Committee during the designated public comment portion of the meeting. If you want to make public comment during the meeting, you can attend the meeting at TWIA’s office in Austin or register and log into the meeting via Zoom on a computer, tablet, smartphone, or telephone. A limited number of TWIA staff will be on-site to facilitate the public comment process.

  • Click here to register to attend the meeting via Zoom.
    • After registering for the meeting, you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the meeting from your preferred device.
  • The meeting will also be livestreamed on YouTube.

Members of the media with questions about the Committee meeting, please email MediaRelations@TWIA.org.

The meeting materials and archived recording for the Committee meeting will be added to our Archived Meetings page after the meeting.

Written Public Comment Received

As of June 28, 2023, TWIA has received no written public comments related to this meeting. Public comments are posted here within two business days of being received by TWIA.