Texas § 422.053 CLAIMANT LIEN ON CERTAIN ASSETS.

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§ 422.053 — CLAIMANT LIEN ON CERTAIN ASSETS.

Texas § 422.053

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Tex. Insurance Code Code Ann. § 422.053 (2026).

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Sec. 422.053. CLAIMANT LIEN ON CERTAIN ASSETS.

(a)A person, corporation, association, governmental entity, or any other legal entity that accepts as security for an insurer's debt or other obligation a pledge or encumbrance of an asset of the insurer that is not made in accordance with this chapter is considered to have accepted the asset subject to a superior, preferential, and automatically perfected lien in favor of a claimant of the insurer.

(b)Subsection (a) does not apply to:

(1)an asset of an insurer in conservatorship or receivership if the commissioner in the conservatorship proceeding, or the court in which the receivership is pending, approves the pledge or encumbrance of the asset; or

(2)a pledge or encumbrance of an asset permitted in a transaction approved by the commissi

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Sec. 422.053. CLAIMANT LIEN ON CERTAIN ASSETS. (a) A person, corporation, association, governmental entity, or any other legal entity that accepts as security for an insurer's debt or other obligation a pledge or encumbrance of an asset of the insurer that is not made in accordance with this chapter is considered to have accepted the asset subject to a superior, preferential, and automatically perfected lien in favor of a claimant of the insurer.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to:
(1) an asset of an insurer in conservatorship or receivership if the commissioner in the conservatorship proceeding, or the court in which the receivership is pending, approves the pledge or encumbrance of the asset; or
(2) a pledge or encumbrance of an asset permitted in a transaction approved by the commissioner under Section 1152.055 .

Legislative History

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727 (H.B. 2017 ), Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2007. Amended by: Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 61 (S.B. 1954 ), Sec. 7, eff. September 1, 2021.