(a) Each insurer applying for a certificate of authority to transact business in this state shall file with the commissioner an appointment of the commissioner and his successors in office, on a form as furnished by the commissioner, as its attorney upon whom may be served all lawful process in any action or proceeding against it in this state and therein shall agree that any such process served upon such attorney shall be of the same force and validity as if served on the insurer. The appointment shall be irrevocable, shall bind the insurer and any successor in interest or to the assets or liabilities of the insurer and shall remain in effect as long as there is outstanding in this state any obligation or liability of the insurer resulting from its transactions therein.
(b) At the time of such appointment of the commissioner as its process agent, the insurer shall file with the commissioner designation of the name and address of the person to whom process against it served upon the commissioner is to be forwarded. The insurer may change such designation by a new filing.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 3 - Authorization of Insurers.
Section 27-3-1 - Certificate of Authority - Requirement.
Section 27-3-2 - Certificate of Authority - Exceptions - Generally.
Section 27-3-4 - Authority to Transact Insurance - Eligibility.
Section 27-3-5 - Authority to Transact Insurance - Use of Name by Insurer.
Section 27-3-6 - Authority to Transact Insurance - Kind or Combinations of Kinds - Restrictions.
Section 27-3-8 - Authority to Transact Insurance - Kind or Combinations of Kinds - Special Surplus.
Section 27-3-9 - Minimum Capital and Surplus for New Domestic Stock Life Insurance Company.
Section 27-3-11 - Deposit Requirements - Generally.
Section 27-3-12 - Deposit Requirements - Special Deposit - Surety Insurers.
Section 27-3-13 - Deposit Requirements - Special Deposit - Title Insurers.
Section 27-3-14 - Deposit Requirements - Alien Insurers - Generally.
Section 27-3-15 - Deposit Requirements - Alien Insurers - Trusteed Assets.
Section 27-3-16 - Lloyd's Insurers.
Section 27-3-17 - Application for Certificate of Authority - Filing.
Section 27-3-19 - Continuance, Expiration, Reinstatement and Amendment of Certificates.
Section 27-3-20 - Suspension or Revocation of Certificates - Mandatory Grounds; Notice and Hearing.
Section 27-3-21 - Suspension or Revocation of Certificates - Additional Grounds; Notice and Hearing.
Section 27-3-22 - Suspension or Revocation of Certificates - Order and Notices.
Section 27-3-24 - Service of Process on Insurers - Appointment of Commissioner as Agent.
Section 27-3-25 - Service of Process on Insurers - How Served; Time to Answer or Plead.
Section 27-3-26 - Annual Statement of Insurers; Furnishing of Other Information on Request.
Section 27-3-26.1 - Annual Submission of Statement of Actuarial Opinion; Application for Exemption.
Section 27-3-27 - Insurers to Do Business Through Licensed Agents, etc.; Exceptions.
Section 27-3-28 - Execution of Contracts Through Countersigning Resident Agent; Exceptions.