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

Tex. Occupations Code § 953.160: LIMITATIONS ON COMPANY NAME.

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  1. OCCUPATIONS CODE
  2. TITLE 5. REGULATION OF FINANCIAL AND LEGAL SERVICES
  3. SUBTITLE B. LEGAL SERVICES
  4. CHAPTER 953. REGULATION OF FOR-PROFIT LEGAL SERVICE CONTRACT COMPANIES
  5. SUBCHAPTER D. PRACTICE BY LEGAL SERVICE CONTRACT COMPANIES

(a) A company may not use a name that:

(1) includes "insurance," "casualty," "surety," or "mutual" or any other word descriptive of the insurance, casualty, or surety business; or

(2) is deceptively similar to the name or description of an insurance or surety corporation or to the name of any other company.

(b) This section does not apply to a company that, before September 1, 2003, included a word prohibited under this section in its name. A company described by this subsection must include in each legal service contract a statement substantially similar to the following: "This agreement is not an insurance contract."

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1181, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

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