North Carolina General Statutes 58-15-90. Legal proceedings
Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 58-15-90
- Attorney: means the person designated and authorized by subscribers as the attorney-in-fact having authority to obligate them on reciprocal and other insurance contracts. See North Carolina General Statutes 58-15-5
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- property: shall include all property, both real and personal. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
- Reciprocal: means an aggregation of subscribers under a common name. See North Carolina General Statutes 58-15-5
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
(a) Any reciprocal doing business in this State may sue or be sued in its business name.
(b) Any action or suit against a reciprocal may be brought in any county (i) where its principal office is located, or (ii) where the cause of action or any part of the cause of action arose. If the action or suit is to recover a loss under a policy of property insurance, it may also be brought in the county where the property insured was situated at the date of the policy. Any action or suit against a foreign or alien reciprocal may also be brought in any county of this State in which it has any debts owed to it.
(c) In an action against a reciprocal, process against the reciprocal may be served upon the Commissioner. If the defendant in the action is a domestic reciprocal, process against that domestic reciprocal shall be served upon the attorney for that domestic reciprocal unless service upon that attorney is not feasible. (1989, c. 425, s. 1.)