Tex. Ins. Code § 541.153 · Subchapter D. PRIVATE ACTION FOR DAMAGES
FRIVOLOUS ACTION.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A court shall award to the defendant court costs and reasonable and necessary attorney's fees if the court finds that an action under this subchapter is groundless and brought in bad faith or brought for the purpose of harassment.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 2, eff. April 1, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.541.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 9475c2a298159327e4968a911e5f439e89fe9b667ab53a046f705576a03662df
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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