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TEXAS DISTRIBUTION INTELLIGENCE — TEASER BRIEFMARCH 29 – APRIL 5, 20265 APR 2026
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01Harding Conley in San Antonio swapped declining Zenith workers’ comp paper for a full AmTrust P&C suite (~$325M TX premium, mostly growing). Producer-confirmed. Highest-scoring event of the week.
02Farmers/Foremost ran a 36-agency batch onboarding campaign while simultaneously terminating a long-tenured San Antonio agency. Network restructuring: expanding $187M in declining entities, cutting a $4.7B full-suite relationship.
03Rust Ewing Watt & Haney in Texas City may be undergoing a generational transition. 8 of 13 producers contracting across 20–144 appointments each, while the agency added a full Utica National P&C suite.
04State Auto (Liberty Mutual) legacy paper running off in East Texas. Negative premiums at Meridian Security, double-digit declines across the family. Confirmed at producer level.
MARKET PULSE
| Metric | This Week |
|---|---|
| DAILY DIFFS COVERED | 8 |
| P&C APPOINTMENT CHANGES (TX) | 1431 |
| AGENCIES WITH P&C MOVEMENT | ~539 |
| P&C CARRIER BLOCK ACTIONS | 6 |
| CARRIER REDISTRIBUTION PATTERNS | 0 |
SOURCE: TDI SOCRATA API // P&C ONLY
CARRIER MOVEMENT — TOP 5DIRECTION ONLY // BUYER READS SUBSCRIBER-ONLY
| Carrier Family | Added | Removed | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmers / Foremost (Zurich) | 36 | 1 | ⇄ RESHUFFLING |
| The Hartford | 4 | 1 | ⇄ RESHUFFLING |
| Travelers | 1 | 0 | ▲ EXPANDING |
| Cimarron Insurance | 0 | 9 | ▼ CONTRACTING |
| AmTrust Financial | 1 | 0 | ▲ EXPANDING |
8 high-interest events identified this week, plus 13 carrier-level narratives with buyer reads — available in the full subscriber brief.
Eight daily diffs (Mar 29 – Apr 5) from the Texas Department of Insurance Socrata API. 3,115 gross changes across 539 P&C agencies. Carrier entities collapsed into families. Individual producer diffs filtered to exclude batch noise (93% of ~14,790 changes). Premium context from TDI Page 14 (2024). [TDI]