O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 33-17-5 (2019)

Requirements as to name; actions by and against insurers

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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A reciprocal insurer shall:

(1) Have and use a business name. The name shall include the word ‘‘reciprocal’’ or ‘‘interinsurer’’ or ‘‘interinsurance’’ or ‘‘exchange’’ or ‘‘underwriters’’ or ‘‘underwriting’’; and

(2) Bring and defend actions in its own name.

History

Code 1933, § 56-2105, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Editor’s notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, annotations decided under former Ga. L. 1958, p. 623, and Ga. L. 1958, p. 649, § 12 are included in the annotations for this Code section. Unincorporated reciprocal exchange may sue and be sued through agent. - Defendant underwriting alli-

ance, an unincorporated reciprocal insurance exchange, was a legal entity, subject to sue and to be sued through an agent. Lumbermen’s Underwriting Alliance v. First Nat’l Bank & Trust Co., 98 Ga. App. 289, 105 S.E.2d 585 (1958) (decided under former Ga. L. 1958, p. 623, and Ga. L. 1958, p. 649, § 12).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 43 Am. Jur. 2d, Insurance, § 72.

C.J.S. - 46A C.J.S., Insurance, § 2368 et seq.