Tex. Insurance Code § 885.263
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 885.263, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 885.263. TREATMENT OF DEFERRED CLAIMS.
Official statutory text
(a) A deferred payment or an installment of a claim is considered to be a fixed liability on the occurrence of the contingency on which the payment or installment is to be paid. The amount of the liability is the present value of the future payment or installment at the rates of interest and mortality assumed by the fraternal benefit society for valuation.
(b) A fraternal benefit society shall maintain a fund sufficient to meet each fixed liability under Subsection (a) regardless of proposed future collections to meet the liability.
(b) A fraternal benefit society shall maintain a fund sufficient to meet each fixed liability under Subsection (a) regardless of proposed future collections to meet the liability.
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