Tex. Insurance Code § 425.156
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 425.156, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 425.156. DISTRIBUTIONS, REINSURANCE, AND MERGER.
Official statutory text
(a) This subchapter does not prohibit an insurance company from acquiring additional obligations, securities, or other assets received as a dividend or as a distribution of assets.
(b) This subchapter does not apply to securities, obligations, or other assets accepted incident to the workout, adjustment, restructuring, or similar realization of any kind of previously authorized investment or transaction if the insurance company's board of directors or a committee appointed by the board of directors determines that acceptance of the securities, obligations, or other assets is in the company's best interests.
(c) This subchapter does not apply to assets acquired under a lawful agreement of bulk reinsurance, merger, or consolidation if the assets were legal and authorized investments for the ceding, merged, or consolidated insurance company.
(d) An obligation, security, or other asset acquired as permitted by this section is not required to be qualified under any other section of this subchapter.
(b) This subchapter does not apply to securities, obligations, or other assets accepted incident to the workout, adjustment, restructuring, or similar realization of any kind of previously authorized investment or transaction if the insurance company's board of directors or a committee appointed by the board of directors determines that acceptance of the securities, obligations, or other assets is in the company's best interests.
(c) This subchapter does not apply to assets acquired under a lawful agreement of bulk reinsurance, merger, or consolidation if the assets were legal and authorized investments for the ceding, merged, or consolidated insurance company.
(d) An obligation, security, or other asset acquired as permitted by this section is not required to be qualified under any other section of this subchapter.
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