Texas Distribution Brief: April 6 – April 12, 2026

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TEXAS DISTRIBUTION INTELLIGENCE — TEASER BRIEFAPRIL 6 – APRIL 12, 202612 APR 2026

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The week Farmers pruned its legacy auto book and quietly doubled its non-standard bench.

•EXECUTIVE READ4 SIGNALS

01Farmers / Foremost added 47 Texas agency appointments against 8 removes this week (net +39) — while Farmers Property and Casualty TX continued a 30% YoY contraction. On the same parent’s shelf, Foremost County Mutual grew 43% YoY to $559M. One holding company, two directly opposing distribution strategies, visible in real time.

02Thirteen Texas agencies lost 10+ P&C carrier appointments in a single snapshot this week. Five rated high-confidence distress. One 17-year Katy shop dropped 26 carriers across 22 families in a single day — the kind of pattern that almost always resolves as an acquisition or principal cascade.

03Travelers ran a clean producer-confirmed shrinking-network redistribution on April 11: six losing agencies, three gaining, anchored by a 14-appointment single-day revocation at one Dallas shop. The pattern is geographically concentrated in DFW, not statewide.

04Gateway Insurance Company onboarded 51 Texas agencies on April 8 against a 2024 TX direct written premium of $48,000 — down 99.8% YoY. Flagged as shell-paper / fronting-style noise, not real distribution capacity. If a producer waves a Gateway appointment at you, that is what it is.

MARKET PULSE

Metric	This Week
DAILY DIFFS COVERED	7
P&C APPOINTMENT CHANGES (TX)	3315
AGENCIES WITH P&C MOVEMENT	~1666
P&C CARRIER BLOCK ACTIONS	13
CARRIER REDISTRIBUTION PATTERNS	1

SOURCE: TDI SOCRATA API // P&C ONLY

THE NUMBER

+39

Net new Farmers / Foremost Texas agency appointments this week

47 adds against 8 removes across four active days, against a parent company whose flagship Farmers Property and Casualty book shrank 30% YoY in Texas. The same parent’s Foremost County Mutual line grew 43% to $559M. One holding company is running two directly opposing distribution strategies in the same state at the same time. That is the kind of thing an appointment feed sees weeks before a trade-press headline does.

CARRIER MOVEMENT — TOP 5DIRECTION ONLY // BUYER READS SUBSCRIBER-ONLY

Carrier Family	Added	Removed	Direction
Farmers / Foremost (Zurich)	47	8	⇄ RESHUFFLING
Gateway Insurance	51	0	▲ EXPANDING
Travelers	3	6	▼ CONTRACTING
Allstate (incl. Homesite)	0	3	▼ CONTRACTING
Texas Mutual	0	1	▼ CONTRACTING

WATCHING NEXT WEEK

›Whether Farmers / Foremost keeps adding on the Foremost side and whether Farmers-branded personal auto goes net-flat — bifurcation confirmation.
›Whether agencies in the Travelers shrinking-network loser column pick up new personal-auto appointments next snapshot — rotation vs runoff.
›Whether a Waco distress agency shows a principal change or new same-ZIP filing — Allstate captive-unwind confirmation.

4 high-interest events identified this week, plus 2 carrier-level narratives with buyer reads — available in the full subscriber brief.

Seven daily diffs (Apr 6–12, runs 246–316) from the Texas Department of Insurance Socrata API. 3,315 gross P&C appointment changes. Distinct-agency count (1,666) is the sum of per-snapshot pair-strip agency counts from the daily pipeline log across the seven diffs (no batch-housekeeping days excluded this week). Carrier entities collapsed into families. Premium context from TDI Page 14 (2024). Phone numbers, filed addresses, and named buyer reads available in the subscriber edition. [TDI]

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