Michigan Laws 500.1319 – Jurisdiction of actions arising out of violations; consent to process
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 500.1319
- Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: means that term as defined in section 114, except that it does not include a securities broker that does not perform more than the usual and customary broker's function, so long as the securities broker holds less than 10% of the voting securities of an insurer or of any person that controls an insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.1301
- 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 belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
The courts of this state have jurisdiction over every person not resident, domiciled, or authorized to do business in this state who files or fails to file a statement with the commissioner as required by this chapter and over all actions involving the person arising out of violations of section 1311 to 1318. Each such person shall be considered to have performed acts equivalent to and constituting an appointment by him or her of the commissioner to be his or her true and lawful attorney upon whom may be served all lawful process in any action, suit, or proceeding arising out of violations of this section. Copies of all lawful process shall be served on the commissioner and transmitted by registered or certified mail by the commissioner to the person at his or her last known address.