Within an environment of increased federal and state regulatory emphasis on health insurance related issues arising due to the passage by the U.S. Congress of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, the Texas Department of Insurance (“TDI”) has drafted new and potentially transformative rules relating to medical

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This month Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed two pieces of recent legislation into law which expand Texas’s growing captive insurance market.

First, Senate Bill 667 amends Chapter 964 of the Texas Insurance Code to permit Texas captive insurance companies to pool risk with other affiliated captives subject to approval

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On May 19, 2015, Governor Abbott signed into law the Texas version of the NAIC’s Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA), which became effectively immediately and will be codified in Chapter 830 of the Texas Insurance Code. The NAIC’s model act version of ORSA was adopted in 2012 and Texas

Read More Texas Enacts Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) Requirements for Texas Insurers