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Texas Insurance Code - INS § 887.457. Disbursement of Mortuary Fund

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The mortuary fund belonging to an association that converts or reinsures under this subchapter is the property of the reorganized company or the company reinsuring the membership of the former association.  Money in the mortuary fund may be disbursed to:

(1) pay a valid claim outstanding and arising after the date of conversion or reinsurance from an insurance policy issued by the company to the association's members under an approved plan;

(2) establish the legal reserve on new insurance policies issued by the company to the association's members under an approved plan;  or

(3) pay the appropriate actuarial portion of the mortuary fund to a member of the association who refuses to accept a new insurance policy offered by the company.

(b) A member must request payment under Subsection (a)(3) not later than the 60th day after the date of the conversion or reinsurance.

(c) The effective date of a mutual legal reserve company's insurance policy may be the effective date of the reinsurance contract.  On conversion, 10 percent of the mortuary fund credit allocated to each policy may be credited to the contingency reserve fund of the company for the benefit of the policyholders.  The balance of the mortuary fund credit may be applied as:

(1) a reserve credit to permit the company's policy to be backdated to the earliest date the reserve credit allows;  or

(2) an annuity to reduce the required premium either for a given term or for the whole of life.

(d) A company may not change the manner in which a mortuary fund credit is applied under Subsections (c)(1) and (2) without the prior approval of the commissioner.

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