Connecticut General Statutes 38a-25 – Insurance Commissioner as agent for service of process
(a) The Insurance Commissioner is the agent for receipt of service of legal process on the following:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 38a-25
- Alien insurer: means any insurer that has been chartered by or organized or constituted within or under the laws of any jurisdiction or country without the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Insurance: means any agreement to pay a sum of money, provide services or any other thing of value on the happening of a particular event or contingency or to provide indemnity for loss in respect to a specified subject by specified perils in return for a consideration. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- insurance company: includes any person or combination of persons doing any kind or form of insurance business other than a fraternal benefit society, and shall include a receiver of any insurer when the context reasonably permits. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Policy: means any document, including attached endorsements and riders, purporting to be an enforceable contract, which memorializes in writing some or all of the terms of an insurance contract. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- State: means any state, district, or territory of the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
(1) Foreign and alien insurance companies authorized to do business in this state in any proceeding arising from or related to any transaction having a connection with this state.
(2) Fraternal benefit societies authorized to do business in this state.
(3) Insurance-support organizations as defined in § 38a-976, transacting business outside this state which affects a resident of this state.
(4) Risk retention groups, as defined in § 38a-250.
(5) Purchasing groups designating the Insurance Commissioner as agent for receipt of service of process pursuant to § 38a-261.
(6) Eligible surplus lines insurers authorized by the commissioner to accept surplus lines insurance.
(7) Except as provided by § 38a-273, unauthorized insurers or other persons assisting unauthorized insurers who directly or indirectly do any of the acts of insurance business as set forth in subsection (a) of § 38a-271.
(8) The Connecticut Insurance Guaranty Association and the Connecticut Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association.
(9) Insurance companies designating the Insurance Commissioner as agent for receipt of service of process pursuant to subsection (i) of § 38a-85.
(10) Nonresident insurance producers and nonresident surplus lines brokers licensed by the Insurance Commissioner.
(11) Life settlement providers and life settlement brokers licensed by the commissioner.
(12) Nonresident reinsurance intermediaries designating the commissioner as agent for receipt of service of process pursuant to § 38a-760b.
(13) Workers’ compensation self-insurance groups, as defined in § 38a-1001.
(14) Persons alleged to have violated any provision of § 38a-130.
(15) (A) Captive insurers, as defined in § 38a-91k, and (B) captive insurance companies, as defined in § 38a-91aa, if a registered agent cannot be found with reasonable diligence at the registered office of a captive insurance company.
(b) Each foreign and alien insurer by applying for and receiving a license to do insurance business in this state, each fraternal benefit society by applying for and receiving a certificate to solicit members and do business, each surplus lines insurer declared to be an eligible surplus lines insurer by the commissioner, each insurance-support organization transacting business outside this state that affects a resident of this state, and each unauthorized insurer by doing an act of insurance business prohibited by § 38a-272, shall be considered to have irrevocably appointed the Insurance Commissioner as agent for receipt of service of process in accordance with subsection (a) of this section. Such appointment shall continue in force so long as any certificate of membership, policy or liability remains outstanding in this state.
(c) The commissioner shall be the agent for the executors, administrators or personal representatives, receivers, trustees or other successors in interest of the persons specified under subsection (a) of this section.
(d) Any legal process that is served on the commissioner pursuant to this section shall be of the same legal force and validity as if served on the principal.
(e) The right to effect service of process as provided under this section shall not limit the right to serve legal process in any other manner provided by law.