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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Insurance Code § 848.003: USE OF INSURANCE-RELATED TERMS BY HEALTH CARE COLLABORATIVE.

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  1. INSURANCE CODE
  2. TITLE 6. ORGANIZATION OF INSURERS AND RELATED ENTITIES
  3. SUBTITLE C. LIFE, HEALTH, AND ACCIDENT INSURERS AND RELATED ENTITIES
  4. CHAPTER 848. HEALTH CARE COLLABORATIVES
  5. SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

A health care collaborative that is not an insurer or health maintenance organization may not use in its name, contracts, or literature:

(1) the following words or initials:

(A) "insurance";

(B) "casualty";

(C) "surety";

(D) "mutual";

(E) "health maintenance organization"; or

(F) "HMO"; or

(2) any other words or initials that are:

(A) descriptive of the insurance, casualty, surety, or health maintenance organization business; or

(B) deceptively similar to the name or description of an insurer, surety corporation, or health maintenance organization engaging in business in this state.

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 7 (S.B. 7), Sec. 4.01, eff. September 28, 2011.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:21Z. Source file · JSON

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