Texas Insurance Code

§ 843.005 — USE OF INSURANCE-RELATED TERMS BY HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION

IN § 843.005Title 6. ORGANIZATION OF INSURERS AND RELATED ENTITIES · Part C. LIFE, HEALTH, AND ACCIDENT INSURERS AND RELATED ENTITIES · Ch. 843. HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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A health maintenance organization that is not authorized as an insurer may not use in its name, contracts, or literature the word "insurance," "casualty," "surety," or "mutual," or any other words that are:

(1)descriptive of the insurance, casualty, or surety business; or

(2)deceptively similar to the name or description of an insurer or surety corporation engaging in business in this state.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.