For the purpose of this article, an insurance-support organization transacting business outside the Commonwealth that has an effect on a person residing in the Commonwealth and which is alleged to violate this article shall be deemed to have appointed the clerk of the Commission to accept service of process on its behalf. Service on the clerk shall be made in accordance with § 12.1-19.1.

Terms Used In Virginia Code 38.2-616

  • Commission: means the State Corporation Commission. See Virginia Code 38.2-100
  • Insurance-support organization: means any person who regularly engages, in whole or in part, in the practice of assembling or collecting information about natural persons for the primary purpose of providing the information to an insurance institution or agent for insurance transactions, including (i) the furnishing of consumer reports or investigative consumer reports to an insurance institution or agent for use in connection with an insurance transaction or (ii) the collection of personal information from insurance institutions, agents or other insurance-support organizations for the purpose of detecting or preventing fraud, material misrepresentation or material nondisclosure in connection with insurance underwriting or insurance claim activity. See Virginia Code 38.2-602
  • Person: means any association, aggregate of individuals, business, company, corporation, individual, joint-stock company, Lloyds type of organization, organization, partnership, receiver, reciprocal or interinsurance exchange, trustee or society. See Virginia Code 38.2-100
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.

1981, c. 389, § 38.1-57.19; 1986, c. 562; 1991, c. 672; 2020, c. 264.

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