Tex. Insurance Code § 542.008

This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 542.008, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.

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§ 542.008. COMPLAINTS AGAINST INSURERS; INVESTIGATION.

Official statutory text

(a) The department shall establish a system for receiving and processing individual complaints alleging a violation of this subchapter by an insurer regardless of whether the insurer is required to file a periodic report under Section 542.006.

(b) The department shall investigate an insurer if the department determines that:

(1) based on the number and type of complaints against an insurer, the insurer does not meet the minimum standard of performance adopted under Section 542.007; or

(2) the number and type of complaints against the insurer are not proportionate to the number and type of complaints against other insurers writing similar lines of insurance.

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