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2018 Georgia Code 33-17-12 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 33 INSURANCE

Section 17. Reciprocal Insurers, 33-17-1 through 33-17-31.

ARTICLE 7 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

33-17-12. Effect of discharge of duties by attorney of foreign or alien insurer; office of attorney.

  1. The attorney of a foreign or alien reciprocal insurer, which insurer is duly authorized to transact insurance in this state, shall not, by virtue of discharge of his duties as such attorney with respect to the insurer's transactions in this state, be thereby deemed to be doing business in this state within the meaning of any laws of this state applying to foreign firms or corporations.
  2. The office of the attorney shall be maintained at such place as is designated by the subscribers in the power of attorney.

(Code 1933, § 56-2106, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Venue properly laid in county where reciprocal exchange had agent at time of loss.

- Provision to the effect that an insurance company can be sued, inter alia, in the county where its agent or place of business was located at the time the cause of action arose or the contract was made (see now O.C.G.A. § 33-4-1(3)), is applicable to a reciprocal exchange, and venue is properly laid in county in which defendant had an agent at the time of the loss, even though when action was filed, this agent had left and service was had upon individual designated by defendant for acceptance of service. Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance v. First Nat'l Bank & Trust Co., 98 Ga. App. 289, 105 S.E.2d 585 (1958); Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance v. Jessup, 98 Ga. App. 305, 105 S.E.2d 596 (1958) (decided under Ga. L. 1958, p. 649, § 2).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 43 Am. Jur. 2d, Insurance, § 74.

C.J.S.

- 46A C.J.S., Insurance, § 2353.

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