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(a) Before any unauthorized insurer files or causes to be filed in any pleading in any court action, suit, or proceeding or in any notice, order, pleading, or process in an administrative proceeding before the commissioner instituted against a person or insurer, by service made a…

Before any unauthorized foreign or alien insurer shall file or cause to be filed any pleading in any action, suit, or proceeding instituted against it, the unauthorized insurer shall deposit with the clerk of the court in which the action, suit, or proceeding is pending, cash or …

Nothing in § 27-16-10 is to be construed to prevent an unauthorized foreign or alien insurer from filing a motion to quash a writ or to set aside service of it made in the manner provided in § 27-16-6 or § 27-16-7 on the ground either: (1) That the unauthorized insurer has not do…

The court in any action, suit, or proceeding in which service is made in the manner provided in § 27-16-6 or § 27-16-7 may, in its discretion, order any postponement as may be necessary to afford the defendant reasonable opportunity to comply with the provisions of § 27-16-10 and…

In any action against an unauthorized foreign or alien insurer upon a contract of insurance issued or delivered in this state to a resident of this state or to a corporation authorized to do business in this state, if the insurer has failed for thirty (30) days after demand prior…

If any provision of §§ 27-16-3 — 27-16-14 or the application of any of these provisions to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the sections which can be given effect without the invalid provision or appl…

(a) Enforcement. The attorney general upon request of the commissioner may proceed in the courts of this state or any reciprocal state to enforce an order of decision in any court proceeding or in any administrative proceeding before the commissioner of insurance. (b) Definitions…

Any unauthorized insurer who transacts any unauthorized act of an insurance business as set forth in §§ 27-16-1.1 — 27-16-2.6 may be fined not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Sections 27-16-1.1 — 27-16-2.6 may be cited as the “Uniform Unauthorized Insurers Act.”

If any provision of §§ 27-16-1.1 — 27-16-2.6 or the application of any of these provisions to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision and to t…

Nothing in §§ 27-16-1.2 and 27-16-2.2 shall be construed to limit or prevent any automobile club or association from paying or agreeing to pay for the services of an attorney as provided in § 11-27-16(a)(8), nor from providing or agreeing to provide or pay for its members’ bail, …

Nothing in §§ 27-16-1.2 — 27-16-2.2 shall be construed to limit or prevent hospitals affiliated with an accredited medical school from agreeing to indemnify hospital employees, and physicians, including physicians’ incorporated or unincorporated practices and employees, and medic…

Sections 27-16-3 — 27-16-14 may be cited as the “Unauthorized Insurers Process Act.”

(a) The purpose of §§ 27-16-3 — 27-16-14 is to subject certain insurers to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state in suits by or on behalf of insureds or beneficiaries under insurance contracts. (b) The legislature declares that it is a subject of concern that many resident…

Any of the following acts in this state, effected by mail or otherwise, by an unauthorized foreign or alien insurer is equivalent to and shall constitute an appointment by the insurer of the insurance commissioner and the commissioner’s successor or successors in office to be the…

(a) Service of process shall be made by delivering to and leaving with the insurance commissioner, or some person in apparent charge of the commissioner’s office, two (2) copies of the process and the payment to the commissioner of any fees prescribed by law. The insurance commis…

Service of process in an action, suit, or proceeding shall, in addition to the manner provided in § 27-16-6, be valid if served upon any person within this state who, in this state on behalf of the insurer, is: (1) Soliciting insurance or reinsurance; (2) Making, issuing, or deli…

No plaintiff or complainant shall be entitled to a judgment by default, a judgment with leave to prove damages, or a judgment pro confesso under §§ 27-16-6 and 27-16-7 until the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of the filing of the affidavit of compliance.

Nothing contained in §§ 27-16-5 — 27-16-8 shall limit or abridge the right to serve any process, notice, or demand upon any insurer in any other manner now or after this permitted by law.