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Commissioner’s Bulletin # B-0027-20

May 20, 2020


To:   Companies writing commercial property or businessowners insurance in Texas and certain farm mutuals writing property insurance

Re:   Data call for 2019 property direct written premium in the Texas catastrophe area


Reporting Period: January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2019

The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) issues the attached special data call, which is authorized by Insurance Code Sections 2210.006 and 2210.052.

The data call is necessary to supplement TDI's statistical information and to enable the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association to calculate participation shares for assessments, should they be required in 2020. The data may also be used in 2021 before data for 2020 is available.

The data call is due no later than July 10, 2020.

Applicability

Your company must respond to this data call if it falls within one of the categories described below. A company subject to this data call must submit the data call form and affidavit to TDI even if the company does not write any applicable business in the Texas catastrophe area.

TDI will email this data call only to companies that fall into one of these categories:

Category 1: Companies reporting 2019 Texas commercial property or businessowners statistical data to TDI's commercial lines statistical agent, Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO), under a minimum or limited reporting format that does not include place code or ZIP code-level detail. This category specifically includes companies reporting under the TDI minimum reporting guidelines for commercial lines statistical reporting.

Category 2: Companies reporting 2019 Texas commercial property or businessowners statistical data to ISO, under a full reporting plan format in which all four quarters of 2019 data have not been fully accepted by ISO as of February 28, 2020. Companies in this category must report premiums for the entire year, not just the quarters of 2019 that ISO has not fully accepted.

Category 3: Farm mutual insurance companies acting as fronting insurers, as defined by Insurance Code Section 221.001(c), that wrote property insurance in 2019.

Definitions of terms

Texas catastrophe area: The area comprised of the following Texas counties: Aransas, Brazoria, Calhoun, Cameron, Chambers, Galveston, Jefferson, Kenedy, Kleberg, Matagorda, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Willacy, and the following portions of Harris County:

  • City of Morgan's Point
  • City of Seabrook – all areas east of Highway 146
  • City of La Porte – all areas east of Highway 146
  • City of Pasadena – all areas east of Highway 146
  • City of Shoreacres – all areas east of Highway 146

Voluntary commercial allied lines direct written premium: The total direct written allied lines premium on commercial monoline or multiple peril policies insuring commercial risks in the Texas catastrophe area that includes coverage for losses due to windstorm damage. Voluntary premium does not include allied lines premium on policies insuring commercial risks in the catastrophe area if the policy contains a windstorm exclusion.

Voluntary businessowners direct written premium: The total direct written premium on businessowners policies insuring commercial risks in the Texas catastrophe area that includes coverage for losses due to windstorm damage. Voluntary premium does not include direct written premium on policies insuring commercial risks in the catastrophe area if the policy contains a windstorm exclusion.

 Submission requirements

  • You must complete the data call using the TWIA Data Call Form. This form requires Adobe Acrobat Standard 7.0, Adobe Professional 7.0, Adobe Reader 7.0, or a more recent version.
  • Complete and email, fax, or mail the TWIA Data Call Affidavit separately from the data call form.

TDI may ask for more information about your responses. For more information, please see the TWIA Data Call Instructions.

If you have questions about this data call, contact TDI's Data Services team at DataCall@tdi.texas.gov or 512-676-6690.

TWIA Data Call Form
TWIA Data Call Affidavit
TWIA Data Call Instructions



For more information, contact: ChiefClerk@tdi.texas.gov

Last updated: 5/20/2020