Tex. Insurance Code § 462.007
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 462.007, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 462.007. APPLICABILITY IN GENERAL; EXCEPTIONS.
Official statutory text
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), this chapter applies to each kind of direct insurance.
(b) Except as provided by Subchapter F, this chapter does not apply to:
(1) life, annuity, health, or disability insurance;
(2) mortgage guaranty, financial guaranty, or other kinds of insurance offering protection against investment risks;
(3) a fidelity or surety bond, or any other bonding obligation;
(4) credit insurance, vendors' single-interest insurance, collateral protection insurance, or similar insurance protecting a creditor's interest arising out of a creditor-debtor transaction;
(5) insurance of warranties or service contracts;
(6) title insurance;
(7) ocean marine insurance;
(8) a transaction or combination of transactions between a person, including an affiliate of the person, and an insurer, including an affiliate of the insurer, that involves the transfer of investment or credit risk unaccompanied by the transfer of insurance risk, including transactions, except for workers' compensation insurance, involving captive insurers, policies in which deductible or self-insured retention is substantially equal in amount to the limit of the liability under the policy, and transactions in which the insured retains a substantial portion of the risk; or
(9) insurance provided by or guaranteed by government.
(b) Except as provided by Subchapter F, this chapter does not apply to:
(1) life, annuity, health, or disability insurance;
(2) mortgage guaranty, financial guaranty, or other kinds of insurance offering protection against investment risks;
(3) a fidelity or surety bond, or any other bonding obligation;
(4) credit insurance, vendors' single-interest insurance, collateral protection insurance, or similar insurance protecting a creditor's interest arising out of a creditor-debtor transaction;
(5) insurance of warranties or service contracts;
(6) title insurance;
(7) ocean marine insurance;
(8) a transaction or combination of transactions between a person, including an affiliate of the person, and an insurer, including an affiliate of the insurer, that involves the transfer of investment or credit risk unaccompanied by the transfer of insurance risk, including transactions, except for workers' compensation insurance, involving captive insurers, policies in which deductible or self-insured retention is substantially equal in amount to the limit of the liability under the policy, and transactions in which the insured retains a substantial portion of the risk; or
(9) insurance provided by or guaranteed by government.
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