Tex. Ins. Code § 441.201 · Subchapter E. PROVISIONS APPLYING TO SUPERVISION AND CONSERVATORSHIP
CONFIDENTIALITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Hearings and orders, notices, correspondence, reports, records, and other information in the department's possession relating to the supervision or conservatorship of an insurer are confidential during the supervision or conservatorship. On termination of the supervision or conservatorship, the information in the department's custody that relates to the supervision or conservatorship is public information.
(b) This section does not prohibit access by the department to hearings or orders, notices, correspondence, reports, records, or other information.
(c) The provisions of Chapter 2001, Government Code, relating to discovery apply to the parties of record in a proceeding under this chapter.
(d) The commissioner may open a proceeding under this chapter or disclose information that is confidential under this section to a department, agency, or instrumentality of this state, another state, or the United States if the commissioner determines that opening the proceeding or disclosing the information is necessary or proper to enforce the laws of this state, another state, or the United States.
(e) An officer or employee of the department is not liable for a release of information that is confidential under this section unless it is shown that the release was accomplished with actual malice.
(f) This section does not apply to information:
(1) if the insurer's insureds are not protected by Chapter 462, 463, or 2602, or substantially similar statutes; or
(2) on the appointment by a court of a receiver for the insurer.
(g) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), if the commissioner places a title insurance agent licensed under Title 11 or an insurance agent licensed under Title 13 under supervision or in conservatorship, the commissioner shall provide written notice of the order of supervision or conservatorship to each insurer for which the agent holds an appointment under Subchapter A, Chapter 2651, or Subchapter E, Chapter 4001, or other applicable law, on the date the supervisor or conservator is appointed.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727 (H.B. 2017), Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2007.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 482 (H.B. 2542), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.441.htm
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- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 462TEXAS PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATIONPrinted as Chapter 462
- Tex. Ins. Code tit. 11TITLE INSURANCEPrinted as Title 11
- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 2651, subch. ATITLE INSURANCE AGENT'S LICENSEPrinted as Subchapter A, Chapter 2651
- Tex. Ins. Code tit. 13REGULATION OF PROFESSIONALSPrinted as Title 13
- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 4001, subch. EAPPOINTMENT OF AGENTPrinted as Subchapter E, Chapter 4001
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