Tex. Insurance Code § 882.565
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 882.565, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 882.565. EFFECT OF MERGER OR CONSOLIDATION ON DIVISIBLE SURPLUS.
Official statutory text
(a) This section applies only to a mutual life insurance company that is a new company or the surviving company resulting from a merger or consolidation under this subchapter.
(b) If the divisible surplus of each domestic mutual life insurance company that is a party to a merger or consolidation under this subchapter was available for allocation to policyholders as provided by Subchapter H immediately before the effective date of the merger or consolidation, the divisible surplus remains available to the policyholders of the new or surviving mutual life insurance company resulting from the merger or consolidation as provided by Subchapter H.
(b) If the divisible surplus of each domestic mutual life insurance company that is a party to a merger or consolidation under this subchapter was available for allocation to policyholders as provided by Subchapter H immediately before the effective date of the merger or consolidation, the divisible surplus remains available to the policyholders of the new or surviving mutual life insurance company resulting from the merger or consolidation as provided by Subchapter H.
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