Tex. Insurance Code § 982.304
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 982.304, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 982.304. SAME OR DECEPTIVELY SIMILAR NAME.
Official statutory text
A foreign or alien insurance company may not be denied permission to engage in the business of insurance in this state because the name of the company is the same as or deceptively similar to the name of a domestic corporation existing under the laws of this state or of another foreign or alien insurance company authorized to engage in the business of insurance in this state if the company desiring to engage in the business of insurance in this state:
(1) files with the department and with any county clerk as provided by Subchapter B or C, Chapter 71, Business & Commerce Code, an assumed name certificate stating a name permitted under the laws of this state; and
(2) does not engage in any business in this state except under the assumed name.
(1) files with the department and with any county clerk as provided by Subchapter B or C, Chapter 71, Business & Commerce Code, an assumed name certificate stating a name permitted under the laws of this state; and
(2) does not engage in any business in this state except under the assumed name.
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