Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 5713 – Service of process; judgment
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(a) Legal process shall be served upon a domestic reciprocal insurer by serving the insurer’s attorney at the attorney’s principal offices or by serving the Commissioner as the insurer’s process agent under §§ 524 and 525 of this title.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 5713
- Attorney: as used in this chapter , refers to the attorney-in-fact of a reciprocal insurer. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 5705
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
(b) Any judgment based upon legal process so served shall be binding upon 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 upon each such subscriber.
18 Del. C. 1953, § ?5713; 56 Del. Laws, c. 380, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;