Tex. Ins. Code § 885.256 · Subchapter F. POWERS AND DUTIES OF FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETY
INDEMNIFICATION OR REIMBURSEMENT IN RELATION TO BREACH OF DUTY PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may not be indemnified or reimbursed under Section 885.255 in relation to:
(1) a matter in a proceeding in which the person is finally adjudged guilty of breach of a duty as a director, officer, employee, or agent of the fraternal benefit society; or
(2) an agreement that settles:
(A) a matter in a proceeding described by Subdivision (1); or
(B) the threat of a proceeding involving the person's alleged breach of a duty as a director, officer, employee, or agent of a fraternal benefit society.
(b) A fraternal benefit society may indemnify or reimburse a person in relation to a matter described by Subsection (a) only if the supreme governing body, the board of directors, or a court determines that:
(1) the person acted in good faith for a purpose the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the society; and
(2) in a criminal proceeding, the person had no reasonable cause to believe that the person's conduct was unlawful.
(c) A determination by a supreme governing body or board of directors under Subsection (b) must be made by majority vote of a quorum consisting of persons who were not parties to the proceeding under review.
(d) The termination of a proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, or conviction or on a plea of no contest does not create a conclusive presumption that a person does not meet the standard of conduct required to justify indemnification and reimbursement.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.
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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.885.htm
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