SECTION 7.1405. Service of Process on Foreign and Alien Insurance Companies Licensed by State Board of Insurance

(a) Requirements for appointment of person in Texas for service of process. As a condition of being issued a certificate of authority to conduct the business of insurance in this state, foreign or alien insurance carriers, including a life, mutual life, nonprofit life, fire, mutual fire and/or casualty, fire and casualty, casualty, Mexican casualty, Lloyd's, reciprocal, fraternal, or title insurance company, a health maintenance organization, a risk retention group, and any other foreign or alien insurance company regardless of its type or category authorized to conduct the business of insurance in this state, shall appoint a person in this state as attorney for service of process on whom any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the insurance company or other entity may be served.

(b) Failure to appoint or maintain person in state; action when certificate is revoked. If a foreign or alien insurance company authorized to transact business in this state fails to appoint or maintain an attorney for service in this state, or if an attorney for service cannot with reasonable diligence be found, or if the certificate of authority of a foreign insurance company is revoked, the commissioner shall be the attorney for service of the company on whom process, notice, or demand may be served as provided by §7.1404 of this title (relating to Service of Process Procedure for Domestic Insurers Approved To Operate under the Insurance Code, Article 1.28, Foreign and Alien Insurance Companies, Risk Retention Groups, Purchasing Groups, Third Party Administrators, Unauthorized Persons or Insurers, Organizations Formed under the Insurance Code, Article 3.71, and Surplus Lines Insurers).

Source Note: The provisions of this §7.1405 adopted to be effective August 11, 1989, 14 TexReg 3690.