A. Legal process shall be served on a domestic reciprocal insurer by serving the insurer’s attorney at the attorney’s principal offices or by serving the director of the department of insurance and financial institutions as the insurer’s attorney-in-fact.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 20-776

  • Attorney: as used in this article refers to the attorney-in-fact of a reciprocal insurer. See Arizona Laws 20-767
  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 20-101
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.

B. Any judgment based on legal process so served shall be binding on each of the insurer’s subscribers as their respective interests may appear, but in an amount not exceeding their respective contingent liabilities, if any, the same as though personal service of process was had on each such subscriber.

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