Tex. Occ. Code § 953.160 · Subchapter D. PRACTICE BY LEGAL SERVICE CONTRACT COMPANIES
LIMITATIONS ON COMPANY NAME.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A company may not use a name that:
(1) includes "insurance," "casualty," "surety," or "mutual" or any other word descriptive of the insurance, casualty, or surety business; or
(2) is deceptively similar to the name or description of an insurance or surety corporation or to the name of any other company.
(b) This section does not apply to a company that, before September 1, 2003, included a word prohibited under this section in its name. A company described by this subsection must include in each legal service contract a statement substantially similar to the following: "This agreement is not an insurance contract."
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1181, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.953.htm
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- 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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