Suit against fire, marine, or inland insurance companies may also be commenced in any county in which the insured property was situated. A suit on a policy may be brought against any life insurance company, or accident insurance company, or life and accident, or health and accident, or life, health, and accident insurance company in the county in which the company's principal office in this state is located or in the county in which the loss has occurred or in which the policyholder or beneficiary instituting the suit resided at the time the cause of action accrued.
Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 15.032
INSURANCE
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Chiriboga v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (2003)
Most recently applied in Chiriboga v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (January 2003)
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.