48.10.170 - Service of legal process.

Service of legal process.

(1) A certificate of authority shall not be issued to a domestic reciprocal insurer unless prior thereto the attorney has executed and filed with the commissioner the insurer's irrevocable authorization of the commissioner to receive legal process issued in this state against the insurer upon any cause of action arising within this state.

     (2) The provisions of RCW 48.05.210 shall apply to service of such process upon the commissioner.

     (3) In lieu of service on the commissioner, legal process may be served upon a domestic reciprocal insurer by serving the insurer's attorney at his or her principal offices.

     (4) Any judgment against the insurer based upon legal process so served shall be binding upon each of the insurer's subscribers as their respective interests may appear and in an amount not exceeding their respective contingent liabilities.

[2009 c 549 § 7042; 1947 c 79 § .10.17; Rem. Supp. 1947 §45.10.17 .]