Paid by the city

CONTINENTAL AMERICAN INSURANCE

The city's published checkbook records $21,452,966 paid to CONTINENTAL AMERICAN INSURANCE across 389 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2026.

Name as the city files it — often the legal name, not the trading name. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

By fiscal year

FY2018$2,277,436

FY2019$2,344,168

FY2020$2,223,190

FY2021$2,122,393

FY2022$2,031,964

FY2023$2,118,153

FY2024$2,540,202

FY2025$2,832,656

FY2026$2,962,804

A dash means no payment to this vendor appears in that year's file. The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.

Which department paid

Citywide General Government$21,443,720

Human Resources Dept.$9,246

How these purchases were made

Vendor Invoice — $21,452,968

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded. None of this vendor's payments were flagged sole-source or emergency.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page is summed from the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗, FY2018–FY2026. PlainDocket stores the totals; the individual payments stay on the city's portal, where you can filter them yourself.

These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
This covers what the city paid — not what a council vote approved. A contract approved years ago can still be generating payments, and money approved recently may not have been paid yet.