Essential Information:
- TWIA’s Actuarial & Underwriting Committee will meet on July 15 to develop a recommendation to the TWIA Board on rates.
- Access the meeting agenda and meeting materials on TWIA’s website
- TWIA’s 2024 Rate Adequacy Analysis indicates that current rates are inadequate by 38 percent for residential coverage and 45 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.
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Greetings:
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s (TWIA) Actuarial & Underwriting Committee will meet on Monday, July 15 at 10:00 am CT. The meeting agenda and meeting materials are available on TWIA’s website.
The Committee will review the 2024 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 38 percent for residential coverage and 45 percent for commercial coverage.
On August 6, 2024, 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 2024 annual rate filing consideration process is available on TWIA’s website.
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.
Public Participation and Comment
TWIA is providing three methods for stakeholders to provide public comment to the Actuarial & Underwriting Committee:
1) Written Public Comment
Members of the public are invited to submit written comments via email at PublicComment@TWIA.org. Interested parties are encouraged to submit comments by noon on Friday, July 12, to enable the Committee to receive and review them before the July 15 meeting. TWIA staff will provide the Committee with all written comments regardless of when they are received.
Written comments submitted to TWIA are subject to the Texas Public Information Act. TWIA will post public comments received, with personally identifiable information redacted, on TWIA’s website.
2) Virtual Verbal Public Comment via Zoom
Individuals wishing to make verbal public comment remotely during the meeting must register and log into the meeting via Zoom on a computer, tablet, smartphone, or telephone. Please make sure you have the latest version of Zoom on your device before joining the meeting. Learn how to update to the latest version of Zoom here.
- You can 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.
- This method of comment is audio only (no video).
3) In-Person Verbal Public Comment at TWIA’s Office
Individuals wishing to make in-person verbal public comment must attend the meeting at TWIA’s office in Austin. TWIA staff will facilitate the public comment process; Committee members are expected to participate virtually.
The full address of the location is:
Texas Windstorm Insurance Association
4801 Southwest Parkway
Building One, Suite 200
Austin, TX 78735
The meeting materials and archived recording for the meeting will be added to our Meeting Library after the meeting.
As a reminder, this message and all TWIA Legislative Updates are archived at www.TWIA.org/legislative. TWIA is now on Twitter (X). Make sure to follow us @TWIA_TX for information on board meetings, the rate filing process, catastrophe response, and other news.
Should you have any questions, please contact me at DDurden@twia.org.or (512) 505-2255.
Sincerely,
David Durden
General Manager
Texas Windstorm Insurance Association
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