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Texas Insurance Code § 562.201

Injunctive Relief

Unfair Methods of Competition and Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices Regarding Discount Health Care Programs · Enforcement by Attorney General

(a) The attorney general may bring an action under this section if the attorney general has reason to believe that:

(1) a person engaged in the business of discount health care programs in this state is engaging in, has engaged in, or is about to engage in an act or practice defined as unlawful under:

(A) this chapter; or

(B) Section 17.46, Business & Commerce Code; and

(2) the action is in the public interest.

(b) The attorney general may bring the action in the name of the state to restrain by temporary or permanent injunction the person's use of the method, act, or practice.

Official text of the Texas Insurance Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1331 (H.B. 4341), Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2010.

Other codes referenced

Bus. & Com. § 17.46

Sections that refer to this one

§ 562.204