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Tex. Ins. Code § 848.003

USE OF INSURANCE-RELATED TERMS BY HEALTH CARE COLLABORATIVE

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 7 (S.B. 7), Sec. 4.01, eff

A health care collaborative that is not an insurer or health maintenance organization may not use in its name, contracts, or literature:

(1) the following words or initials:

(A) "insurance";

(B) "casualty";

(C) "surety";

(D) "mutual";

(E) "health maintenance organization"; or

(F) "HMO"; or

(2) any other words or initials that are:

(A) descriptive of the insurance, casualty, surety, or health maintenance organization business; or

(B) deceptively similar to the name or description of an insurer, surety corporation, or health maintenance organization engaging in business in this state.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.