California Insurance Code

§ 12931

INS § 12931 Effective Jan 1, 2025Div. 3 · Ch. 2 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)Service of legal process, notices, or other papers described in or referred to by Section 1452, 1605, 1610, 1612, 11104, or 11105 may be made upon the commissioner in the instances enumerated in this section and under the circumstances prescribed in this section by delivering to the commissioner, the commissioner’s deputy, or the commissioner’s designated agent for service of process two copies thereof for each person or party defendant so served accompanied by payment of a substituted service fee as determined pursuant to Section 12978 for each person or party, and by complying with the other provisions of this section.

(b)The situations under which such service may be so made and the circumstances under which these provisions apply are:

(1)Where for any reason the person desiring to have service so made elects to serve the commissioner instead of the attorney in fact, as stipulated pursuant to Section 1323, of a reciprocal or interinsurance exchange, domestic, foreign, admitted, or nonadmitted.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 444, Sec. 8. (SB 577) Effective January 1, 2025.