2010 Tennessee Code
Title 56 - Insurance
Chapter 2 - Insurance Companies
Part 5 - Service of Process
56-2-505 - Unauthorized insurers doing business constitutes secretary of state as attorney for service of process.
56-2-505. Unauthorized insurers doing business constitutes secretary of state as attorney for service of process.
(a) Any act of entering into a contract of insurance as an insurer or transacting insurance business in this state, as set forth in § 56-2-107, by an unauthorized foreign or alien company, is equivalent to and constitutes an appointment by the company of the secretary of state to be its true and lawful attorney upon whom may be served all lawful process in any action or proceeding against it:
(1) Arising out of a violation of § 56-2-105; or
(2) To collect the taxes imposed in chapter 4 of this title.
(b) The performance of any of the acts enumerated in § 56-2-107 is signification of the company's agreement that any such process against it that is so served is of the same legal force and validity as if served upon the company.
[Acts 1968, ch. 536, § 7; T.C.A., § 56-255.]
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