Sec. 887.360.  COST OF DEFENDING CONTESTED CLAIMS.  An association authorized to write accident, health, or hospitalization insurance may pay the reasonable costs of defending a contested claim on an accident, health, or hospitalization insurance certificate from the mortuary fund of the association if:
(1)  the expenditure is approved by the commissioner;  and
(2)  the association has the reserves required by Subchapter I.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.