Tex. Insurance Code § 1201.274
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 1201.274, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 1201.274. INSURER'S EVIDENTIARY USE OF APPLICATION FOR REINSTATEMENT OR RENEWAL.
Official statutory text
(a) If an individual accident and health insurance policy is reinstated or renewed, and the insured or the beneficiary or assignee of the policy makes a written request for a copy of the application for reinstatement or renewal, the insurer shall, not later than the 15th day after the date the insurer receives the request at its home or branch office, deliver or mail a copy of the application to the person who made the request.
(b) An insurer that fails to comply with this section may not introduce the application for reinstatement or renewal as evidence in any action or proceeding based on or involving the policy or its reinstatement or renewal.
(b) An insurer that fails to comply with this section may not introduce the application for reinstatement or renewal as evidence in any action or proceeding based on or involving the policy or its reinstatement or renewal.
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