Sec. 402.001. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER  


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  • (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), this chapter applies to:

    (1) each of the following domestic or commercially domiciled insurers:

    (A) a capital stock insurance company;

    (B) a mutual insurance company;

    (C) a title insurance company;

    (D) a fraternal benefit society;

    (E) a Lloyd's plan;

    (F) a reciprocal or interinsurance exchange;

    (G) a group hospital service corporation or a nonprofit hospital, medical, or dental service corporation;

    (H) a risk retention group; and

    (I) a nonprofit legal services corporation; and

    (2) a domestic or commercially domiciled health maintenance organization.

    (b) This chapter does not apply to a domestic insurer that engages in the business of insurance only in this state or to a domestic health maintenance organization that engages in the business of a health maintenance organization only in this state until the insurer or health maintenance organization is authorized to engage in the business of insurance or the business of a health maintenance organization, as applicable, in another state.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727 , Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2007.