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2018 Georgia Code 33-17-5 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 33-17-5 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 33-17-5

TITLE 33 INSURANCE

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

ARTICLE 7 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

33-17-5. Requirements as to name; actions by and against insurers.

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.

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

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Unincorporated reciprocal exchange may sue and be sued through agent.

- Defendant underwriting alliance, 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, § 2362.

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