Tex. Insurance Code § 883.157
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 883.157, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 883.157. REINSURANCE OF POLICY.
Official statutory text
(a) Subject to Subsection (c), a mutual insurance company authorized to engage in the business of insurance in this state may enter into an agreement with an insurer to cede to or accept from the insurer all or part of an insurance risk.
(b) A reinsurance agreement under this section does not create or confer contingent liability, participation, or membership unless otherwise provided by the agreement.
(c) A mutual insurance company may not enter into an agreement with a reinsurer that has been disapproved for that purpose by written order of the commissioner filed in the department's offices.
(b) A reinsurance agreement under this section does not create or confer contingent liability, participation, or membership unless otherwise provided by the agreement.
(c) A mutual insurance company may not enter into an agreement with a reinsurer that has been disapproved for that purpose by written order of the commissioner filed in the department's offices.
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