Vermont Statutes
Chapter 101 - Insurance Companies Generally
§ 3383. Service upon the Secretary of State notice to defendant

§ 3383. Service upon the Secretary of State notice to defendant
Such service of process shall be made by delivering to and leaving with the Secretary of State or some person in apparent charge of his or her office two copies thereof and the payment to him or her of such fee as is required by 12 V.S.A. § 852. The Secretary of State shall forthwith mail by registered mail one of the copies of such process to the defendant at its last known principal place of business and shall keep a record of all processes so served upon him or her. Such service of process is sufficient, provided notice of such service and a copy of the process are sent within 14 days thereafter by registered mail by plaintiff or plaintiff’s attorney to the defendant at its last known principal place of business, and the defendant’s receipt, or receipt issued by the post office with which the letter is registered, showing the name of the sender of the letter and the name and address of the person to whom the letter is addressed, and the affidavit of the plaintiff or plaintiff’s attorney showing a compliance herewith are filed with the clerk of the court in which such action is pending on or before the date the defendant is required to appear, or within such further time as the court may allow. (Added 1967, No. 344 (Adj. Sess.), § 1 (ch. 1, subch. 3, § 3); amended 2017, No. 11, § 4.)

Structure Vermont Statutes

Vermont Statutes

Title 8 - Banking and Insurance

Chapter 101 - Insurance Companies Generally

§ 3301. Purposes

§ 3301a. Insurance defined

§ 3302. Plan of organization; incorporators

§ 3303. Mutual companies; directors, charter provisions as to

§ 3304. Capital and surplus requirements

§ 3305. Petition; hearing

§ 3306. Duties of Secretary of State, records

§ 3307. Consideration for stock

§ 3308. List of stockholders; certificate to transact business; liability of president and directors

§ 3308a. Reorganization formations

§ 3309. Mutual insurers to commence business; when

§ 3310. Amendment of charter

§ 3311. Quorum

§ 3312. Construction with other laws

§ 3313. Proxies

§ 3314. Annual financial statements; reports; filing fee

§ 3315. Coordinated regulation

§ 3316. Corporate governance; disclosure

§ 3361. Requirements for license

§ 3362. Authority to transact various kinds of insurance business

§ 3363. Revocation of license

§ 3364. Authorization for investment purposes only

§ 3365. Plan of organization

§ 3366. Assets of companies

§ 3367. Retaliatory provisions

§ 3368. Transacting business without certificate of authority prohibited

§ 3368a. Unauthorized and misleading transactions

§ 3369. Commissioner may enjoin unauthorized insurer

§ 3370. Service of process upon unauthorized insurer by director

§ 3371. Limits of risk

§ 3381. Legislative purpose and policy

§ 3382. Acts which constitute Secretary of State agent for service of process

§ 3383. Service upon the Secretary of State notice to defendant

§ 3384. Service upon other agents; notice to defendant

§ 3386. Effect on other modes of service

§ 3387. Prerequisites to defense of action

§ 3388. Postponements

§ 3389. Motion to quash for improper service

§ 3390. Attorney’s fees

§ 3421. Mutualization of stock insurer

§ 3422. Mutual insurers—Prohibitions

§ 3423. Converting mutual insurer or mutual insurance holding company

§ 3424. Procedure for merger

§ 3425. Procedure for consolidation

§ 3426. Effective date of merger or consolidation

§ 3427. Voting

§ 3428. Rights of dissenting shareholders

§ 3429. Rights of dissenting members or policyholders

§ 3430. Effect of merger or consolidation

§ 3431. Merger or consolidation between domestic and foreign insurers—Requirements

§ 3432. Transfer of deposits

§ 3433. Certificates of fees and commissions paid

§ 3434. Fees—Penalty for receiving

§ 3437. Redomestication; approval as a domestic insurer

§ 3438. Redomestication; conversion to foreign insurer

§ 3439. Effects of redomestication

§ 3440. Redomestication; fees

§ 3441. Formation of a mutual insurance holding company

§ 3442. Merger of mutual insurance company into an existing mutual insurance holding company; merger and acquisition by mutual insurance holding company or subsidiary of mutual insurance holding company

§ 3443. Regulated as an insurance company

§ 3444. Demutualization of a mutual insurance holding company

§ 3445. Membership interest not a security

§ 3446. Filing of amended charters

§ 3461. Definitions

§ 3461a. General limitations and diversification requirements for property and casualty, financial guaranty and mortgage guaranty insurers

§ 3461b. General limitations and diversification requirements for life and health insurers

§ 3461c. Rated credit investments

§ 3461d. Registration or filing exemption

§ 3462. Investments—Foreign insurers

§ 3463. Domestic insurers

§ 3463a. Valuation of investments

§ 3465. Exemption from investment limitations

§ 3467. Qualification of investments

§ 3468. Investments qualified under prior law

§ 3469. Loans to directors and officers—Restrictions

§ 3470. Mortgage loans to minors

§ 3471. Mortgages on real and personal property as liens; priorities

§ 3472. Earnings statements and income ratios—Special situations

§ 3501. Life insurance and annuities

§ 3502. Insurance—Other life insurance and annuities

§ 3503. Deposits of domestic insurer doing foreign business

§ 3504. Pension system

§ 3541. Filing and approval of forms

§ 3542. Grounds for disapproval

§ 3543. Existing forms and filings

§ 3552. Fees assessed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners

§ 3561. Annual statement

§ 3562. Time reports due

§ 3563. Examination of companies; fees

§ 3564. Examination of foreign insurers; expenses

§ 3565. Examination of officers and books

§ 3566. Penalty for refusal

§ 3567. Liquor liability insurance records

§ 3568. Preservation of records

§ 3569. National Association of Insurance Commissioners filing requirements

§ 3570. Immunity

§ 3571. Confidentiality

§ 3572. Revocation of certificate of authority

§ 3573. Conduct of examinations

§ 3574. Examination reports

§ 3575. Conflict of interest

§ 3576. Immunity from liability

§ 3577. Requirements for actuarial opinions

§ 3578a. Annual financial reporting

§ 3579. Qualified accountants

§ 3581. Purpose; scope; intent

§ 3582. Definitions

§ 3583. Risk management framework

§ 3584. ORSA requirement

§ 3585. Summary report

§ 3586. Exemption

§ 3587. Contents of ORSA summary report

§ 3588. Confidentiality

§ 3589. Sanctions

§ 3604. Offset

§ 3611. Scope of subchapter; short title

§ 3612. Definitions

§ 3613. Creation of Association

§ 3614. Board of Directors

§ 3615. Powers and duties of Association

§ 3616. Plan of operation

§ 3617. Powers and duties of Commissioner

§ 3618. Effect of paid claims

§ 3619. Nonduplication of recovery

§ 3620. Prevention of insolvencies

§ 3621. Examination of Association

§ 3622. Tax exemption

§ 3623. Recognition of assessments in rates

§ 3624. Immunity

§ 3625. Stay of proceedings; reopening of default judgment

§ 3626. Prohibition against advertising of membership in Association

§ 3634a. Credit for reinsurance

§ 3635. Insolvency of ceding company

§ 3636. Reinsurance contract

§ 3641. Claims, rights, title, and interests of nonresidents

§ 3642. Liability for payments to nonresidents

§ 3661. Cease and desist powers; prosecutions and penalties

§ 3662. Nonpayment of judgment; penalty

§ 3663. Minimum limitation on actions; void policy provisions

§ 3664. Forms; filing proof of loss and other documents, waiver of filing

§ 3665a. Timely payment of property and casualty insurance claims; interest

§ 3665b. Timely payment of life insurance claims and annuity death benefits; interest

§ 3665c. Damages

§ 3666. Rules; methods of notice

§ 3671. Disclosure of information

§ 3672. Immunity

§ 3673. Penalty for noncompliance

§ 3681. Definitions

§ 3682. Subsidiaries of insurers

§ 3683. Acquisition of control of or merger with domestic insurer

§ 3683a. Acquisitions involving insurers not otherwise covered

§ 3684. Registration of insurers

§ 3685. Standards and management of an insurer within an insurance holding company system

§ 3686. Examination

§ 3687. Confidential treatment

§ 3688. Rules and regulations

§ 3689. Injunctions; prohibitions against voting securities; sequestration of voting securities

§ 3690. Sanctions

§ 3691. Receivership

§ 3692. Revocation, suspension, or nonrenewal of insurer’s license

§ 3693. Judicial review

§ 3694. Recovery

§ 3695. Supervisory colleges

§ 3696. Groupwide supervisor; internationally active insurance group