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2021 Texas Statutes
Insurance Code
Title 5 - Protection of Consumer Interests
Subtitle C - Deceptive, Unfair, and Prohibited Practices
Chapter 562 - Unfair Methods of Competition and Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices Regarding Discount Health Care Programs
Subchapter E. Enforcement by Attorney General
Section 562.201. Injunctive Relief
Universal Citation: TX Ins Code § 562.201 (2021)
Sec. 562.201. INJUNCTIVE RELIEF. (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.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1331 (H.B. 4341), Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2010.
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