520.5  Actions — venue — commissioner as process agent.
  Concurrently with the filing of the declaration provided for by the terms of section 520.4, the attorney shall file with the commissioner of insurance, an instrument in writing executed by the attorney for the subscribers, conditioned that, upon the issuance of certificate of authority provided for in this chapter, action may be brought in the county in which the property or person insured thereunder is located, and that service of process shall be had upon the commissioner of insurance or upon the attorney in fact in all suits in this state, whether arising out of such policies, contracts, agreements or otherwise. Service shall be valid and binding upon all subscribers exchanging at any time reciprocal or interinsurance contracts through such attorney. All suits of every kind and description brought against the reciprocal exchange, or the subscribers on account of their connection with the reciprocal exchange, must be brought against the attorney in fact or the exchange as such, and shall not be brought against any of the subscribers individually on account of their connection with or membership in such reciprocal exchange, and must be brought in the manner and method provided in this section.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §9087; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §520.5]
2020 Acts, ch 1063, §291
Referred to in §520.14