Texas · statute · Tex. Insurance Code (Not Codified) · 52 active provisions
(a) Expired. (b) The duties transferred to the comptroller relative to taxes, fees, and assessments imposed under this code or another insurance law of this state relate to the collection, reporting, enforcement, and administration of all such amounts currently provided for under this code or another insurance law of t…
(a) The department, the State Board of Insurance, and the Commissioner shall be represented and advised by the Attorney General in all legal matters before them or in which they shall be interested or concerned. The department, the Board, and the Commissioner may not employ or obtain any other legal services without th…
Sec. 1. (a) The State of Texas and each of its political, governmental and administrative subdivisions, departments, agencies, associations of public employees, and the governing boards and authorities of each state university, colleges, common and independent school districts or of any other agency or subdivision of t…
Any incorporated city, town or village in the State of Texas which is authorized by law to procure a contract insuring its respective employees or any class or classes thereof under a policy or policies of group insurance covering one or more risks may pay all or any portion of the premiums on such policy or policies f…
The premium cost of group life, health, accident, hospital, surgical and/or medical expense insurance for retirees of the Central Education Agency, the Texas Rehabilitation Commission, the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, for retired employees of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental…
(a) The costs of group life and health insurance premiums to persons retired under the Teacher Retirement Act, who at the time of their retirement were employed by the Texas Central Education Agency, the Texas Rehabilitation Commission, the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, the Texas Youth Commi…
(a) This article shall apply only to persons retired as annuitants under the provisions of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas who were immediately prior to retirement appointed officers or employees of the Central Education Agency, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, the Texas School for the Blind and Visually…
Text of article effective upon appropriation of funds (a) The consumer assistance program for health maintenance organizations is established. The commissioner may contract, through a request for proposals, with a nonprofit organization to operate the program. (b) The program shall: (1) assist individual consumers in c…
All insurance companies incorporated under the laws of this state shall hereafter be required to render for county and municipal taxation all of their real estate and all furniture, fixtures, automobiles, equipment, and data processing systems, as other such real estate and tangible personal property is rendered in the…
(a) Every insurance company, corporation, interinsurance exchange, mutual, reciprocal, association, Lloyd's or other insurer, hereinafter called insurer, writing any form of motor vehicle insurance in this State, shall annually file with the State Board of Insurance, hereinafter called Board, on forms prescribed by the…
(a) Information filed or otherwise provided by an insurer to the State Board of Insurance for the purpose of determining, fixing, prescribing, promulgating, altering, or amending commercial automobile liability insurance rates under Article 5.01 of this code, obtaining a rate deviation under Article 5.03 of this code,…
(a) On and after the filing and effective date of such classification of such risks and rates, no such insurer, except as otherwise provided herein, shall issue or renew any such insurance at premium rates which are greater or lesser than those promulgated by the Board as just, reasonable, adequate and not excessive fo…
(a) To insure the adequacy and reasonableness of rates the Board may take into consideration past and prospective experience, within and outside the State, and all other relevant factors, within and outside the State, gathered from a territory sufficiently broad to include the varying conditions of the risks involved a…
(a) A report filed under Article 5.01(a) of this code must include the information necessary to compute a Texas automobile experience modifier as provided by this code or a rule adopted by the State Board of Insurance. In reporting losses under Article 5.01(a) of this code, an insurer may include only the following as…
(1) The Board shall adopt a policy form and endorsements for each type of motor vehicle insurance subject to this subchapter. The coverage provided by a policy form adopted under this subsection is the minimum coverage that may be provided under an insurance policy for that type of insurance in this State. Each policy…
The Board is hereby empowered to make and enforce all such reasonable rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this subchapter as are necessary to carry out its provisions.
(a) Any policyholder or insurer shall have the right to a hearing before the Board on any grievance occasioned by the approval or disapproval by the Board of any classification, rate, rating plan, endorsement or policy form, or any rule or regulation established under the terms hereof, such hearing to be held in confor…
(a) This subchapter applies to every insurance company, corporation, interinsurance exchange, mutual, reciprocal, association, Lloyd's plan, or other organization or insurer writing any of the characters of insurance business herein set forth, hereinafter called "Insurer"; provided that nothing in this entire subchapte…
(a) Every insurer governed by Subchapter B of Chapter 5 of the Insurance Code, as amended, and every life, health, and accident insurer governed by Chapter 3 of the Insurance Code, as amended, is authorized to issue prepaid legal services contracts. Every such insurer or rating organization authorized under Article 5.1…
Sec. 1. PURPOSE. This article governs the regulation of insurance described by Section 2 of this article. The purposes of this article are to: (1) promote the public welfare by regulating insurance rates to prohibit excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory rates; (2) promote availability of insurance; (3) prom…
Sec. 1. Repealed by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727, Sec. 18, eff. April 1, 2007. Sec. 2. Repealed by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727, Sec. 18, eff. April 1, 2007. Sec. 4. Repealed by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727, Sec. 18, eff. April 1, 2007. Sec. 4A. Repealed by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 685, Sec. 6.12, eff. Sept. 1, 199…
(a) The Board may suspend the license of any advisory organization licensed under Article 5.73 of this code, insurer or agent which fails to comply with an order of the Board within the time limited by such order, or any extension thereof which the Board may grant. The Board shall not suspend the license of any advisor…
Any order or decision of the Board shall be subject to review, which shall be on the basis of the record of the proceedings before the Board and shall not be limited to questions of law, by direct action in the District Court of Travis County, instituted by any party aggrieved by any action taken under this subchapter.…
(a) The State Board of Insurance shall have the sole and exclusive power and authority and it shall be its duty to prescribe, fix, determine and promulgate the rates of premiums to be charged and collected by fire insurance companies transacting business in this State. Said Board shall also have authority to alter or a…
(a) The State Board of Insurance in adopting fire insurance and homeowners insurance rates under this subchapter shall authorize a fringe area rating as defined under its general basis rating schedule for any dwelling located within five miles of the outer boundary of a platted subdivision classified by the board under…