Tex. Insurance Code § 843.005
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 843.005, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 843.005. USE OF INSURANCE-RELATED TERMS BY HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION.
Official statutory text
A health maintenance organization that is not authorized as an insurer may not use in its name, contracts, or literature the word "insurance," "casualty," "surety," or "mutual," or any other words that are:
(1) descriptive of the insurance, casualty, or surety business; or
(2) deceptively similar to the name or description of an insurer or surety corporation engaging in business in this state.
(1) descriptive of the insurance, casualty, or surety business; or
(2) deceptively similar to the name or description of an insurer or surety corporation engaging in business in this state.
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