Tex. Ins. Code § 1812.003 · Chapter 1812. AVAILABILITY OF SPECIMEN POLICIES
NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF CERTAIN FORMS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An insurer that posts a specimen policy on the insurer's Internet website under this chapter must, on issuance or renewal of a policy incorporating the specimen policy:
(1) on the declarations page of the insured's policy:
(A) disclose that the specimen policy is available on the insurer's Internet website; and
(B) clearly identify each posted specimen policy incorporated into the insured's policy;
(2) explain that and how an insured, on request and at no charge, may obtain a copy of the specimen policy from the insurer; and
(3) provide to the department and the office of public insurance counsel an electronic copy of the specimen policy that may be posted on the Internet website of the department or the office of public insurance counsel.
(b) An insurer that during an insured's policy period posts a specimen policy or amends a posted specimen policy incorporated into an insured's policy must, on the date the specimen policy is posted or amended, in writing and in the insurer's customary manner of communicating with the insured:
(1) notify the insured that the specimen policy is available on the insurer's Internet website;
(2) clearly identify each added or amended specimen policy incorporated into the insured's policy; and
(3) explain that and how the insured, on request and at no charge, may obtain a copy of the specimen policy from the insurer.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 101 (S.B. 852), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1812.htm
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