Tex. Insurance Code § 425.160
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 425.160, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 425.160. INVESTMENTS OF CEDING INSURERS.
Official statutory text
(a) Subject to this section, if a domestic insurance company assumes and reinsures the business of and takes over the assets of another domestic insurance company or a foreign company, all assets or investments of the ceding company that were authorized as proper assets or investments for the funds of that company and taken over by the assuming company are considered valid assets or investments of the assuming company under the laws of this state.
(b) The commissioner must approve assets or investments described by Subsection (a) and the terms on which those assets or investments are taken over. The commissioner may require the assuming insurance company to reasonably dispose of any of those assets or investments that do not otherwise meet the requirements of this subchapter within a period that will minimize any financial loss or other hardship caused by disposing of the asset or investment.
(b) The commissioner must approve assets or investments described by Subsection (a) and the terms on which those assets or investments are taken over. The commissioner may require the assuming insurance company to reasonably dispose of any of those assets or investments that do not otherwise meet the requirements of this subchapter within a period that will minimize any financial loss or other hardship caused by disposing of the asset or investment.
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