O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 33-4-2 (2019)

Domestic insurers, service of process

✓ 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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Service of process against a domestic insurer may be made upon the insurer corporation in the manner provided by laws applying to corporations generally or upon the insurer’s attorney in fact if a reciprocal insurer or a Lloyd’s association.

History

Code 1933, § 56-1202, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 33.

Annotations

Cross references. - Service of process generally, § 9-11-4.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Thaxton v. Georgia Insurer’s Insolvency Pool, 158 Ga. App. 407, 280

S.E.2d 421 (1981); Kirkpatrick v. Mackey, 162 Ga. App. 876, 293 S.E.2d 461 (1982).

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - Validity of substituted service of process upon liability insurer of unavailable tortfeasor, 17 A.L.R.4th 918.