Tex. Insurance Code § 541.454
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 541.454, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 541.454. PENALTIES AND RELATED PAYMENTS BY INSURER.
Official statutory text
(a) Civil penalties, premium refunds, judgments, compensatory judgments, individual recoveries, orders, class action awards, costs, damages, or attorney's fees assessed or awarded under this chapter:
(1) may be paid only from the capital or surplus funds of the offending insurer; and
(2) may not take precedence over, be in priority to, or in any other manner apply to:
(A) Chapter 462 or 463 or any other insurance guaranty act; or
(B) Chapter 422.
(b) The statutes described by Subsection (a)(2) and the priorities of funds created by those statutes are exempt from the provisions of this chapter.
(1) may be paid only from the capital or surplus funds of the offending insurer; and
(2) may not take precedence over, be in priority to, or in any other manner apply to:
(A) Chapter 462 or 463 or any other insurance guaranty act; or
(B) Chapter 422.
(b) The statutes described by Subsection (a)(2) and the priorities of funds created by those statutes are exempt from the provisions of this chapter.
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