Senate Bill sb1960

    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1960

    By Senator Margolis





    35-1124-03                                          See HB 821

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to service of process against

  3         the Florida Automobile Joint Underwriting

  4         Association; amending s. 627.311, F.S.;

  5         specifying that the Florida Automobile Joint

  6         Underwriting Association appoints the Chief

  7         Financial Officer as agent for service of

  8         process purposes; requiring the association to

  9         file certain information with the Department of

10         Financial Services; providing a limitation

11         relating to method of service of process;

12         providing an effective date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  Subsection (6) is added to section 627.311,

17  Florida Statutes, to read:

18         627.311  Joint underwriters and joint reinsurers.--

19         (6)(a)  The Florida Automobile Joint Underwriting

20  Association created under this section shall be deemed to have

21  appointed the Chief Financial Officer and his or her

22  successors in office as its agent to receive service of all

23  legal process issued against it in any civil action or

24  proceeding in this state. Process so served shall be valid and

25  binding upon the insurer.

26         (b)  The association shall file with the Department of

27  Financial Services a designation of the name and address of

28  the person to whom process against it served upon the Chief

29  Financial Officer is to be forwarded. The association may

30  change the designation at any time by a new filing.

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1960
    35-1124-03                                          See HB 821




 1         (c)  Service of process upon the Chief Financial

 2  Officer as the association's agent pursuant to such an

 3  appointment shall be the sole method of service of process

 4  upon the association.

 5         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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