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	~1416
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 across 1,416 distinct Texas agencies. 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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