Surplus Lines Agent and Agency License Status Records

Records detail the licensing status of individuals and organizations authorized as surplus lines agents in Texas. The dataset includes fields for license issue dates, status, and entity type, maintained by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Predict License status from License original issue date, License expiration date, and Entity type.
• Analyze trends in License inactivation reason over time using License effective date and status fields.
• Identify geographic distribution of licensees by grouping records by Resident state.
• Monitor license renewal cycles by calculating durations between License effective date and License expiration date.

Strengths

• Contains 9 distinct columns covering key licensing attributes like status, dates, and entity type.
• Data is maintained by a state regulatory agency (TDI), suggesting authoritative sourcing.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count prevents assessment of dataset scale and statistical power.
• Sample data is unavailable, hindering preliminary inspection of data quality and distributions.

Provenance

Source

Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) via data.texas.gov.

Collection Method

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Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated April 2026, indicating planned future updates.

Geography

Primarily Texas, as indicated by Resident state field and TDI jurisdiction.