For the third year running, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) is actively considering whether a catastrophe bond should make up part of the windstorm insurer of last resorts reinsurance and risk transfer arrangements for 2014.
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The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has once again been considering the use of catastrophe bonds as part of its reinsurance and risk transfer arrangements in 2013. TWIA is an insurer of last resort which provides windstorm and hail insurance to Texas Gulf Coast property owners who might otherwise be left uninsured. It’s not the first […]
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The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA), the property insurer of last resort for Texas Gulf Coast property owners exposed to windstorms and hail, has today been holding its latest quarterly board of directors meeting. We wrote back in November here that the TWIA actuarial committee had recommended that an item be placed on the agenda […]
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The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA), the insurer of last resort who provide windstorm and hail insurance to Texas Gulf Coast property owners who might otherwise be left uninsured, is the latest semi-governmental insurer to look seriously at the catastrophe bond market as a way to complement their reinsurance and risk transfer program. A meeting […]
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The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the insurer of last resort who provide windstorm and hail insurance to Gulf Coast property owners who might otherwise be left uninsured, have topped up their coverage by purchasing $636m of reinsurance from the private market.
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At a meeting of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) Board today, the recently proposed new weighting methodology for a blending of catastrophe risk models to derive the 1-in-50 year PML was approved.
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The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has made some progress in determining how much in reinsurance and catastrophe bonds it will buy in 2026, as its Actuarial & Underwriting Committee met yesterday in a lengthy meeting to select a weighting methodology for a blending of risk models to derive the 1-in-50 year PML.
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The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) is now projecting that the amount of reinsurance and catastrophe bonds it may require for the 2026 wind season could be roughly 46% lower than this year’s program, with $2.3 billion of limit the current forecast.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending August 10th 2025, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.
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At a Board meeting of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) yesterday, members discussed the evolution of the property insurer of last resort’s funding under new state legislation, concluding that it may result in TWIA opting to reset and perhaps even redeem early some of its catastrophe bonds.
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