Service of process on nonresident agent or broker

  1. Law
  2. US Virgin Islands Code
  3. Insurance
  4. Virgin Islands Insurance Producer and Adjuster Licensing
  5. Service of process on nonresident agent or broker

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  • (a) Every nonresident agent or broker by obtaining a license in the Virgin Islands may be sued in the Virgin Islands in the district of the plaintiff’s property, residence or principal office or place of business upon any cause of action, arising out of or based upon any business or acts done or omitted to be done.

  • (b) The Commissioner is the attorney in fact of a nonresident agent or broker for the purpose of being served with and accepting service of process in such suits, action or other proceedings. The summons or other process together with a certified copy of the complaint, or other pleading must be served upon the Commissioner in triplicate, and the Commissioner shall immediately mail a true copy registered mail with proper postage affixed properly addressed to the residence of the nonresident agent or broker.

  • (c) The place of residence of a licensed nonresident agent or broker placed on file with the Commissioner is considered the place of residence until such agent or broker places on file with the Commissioner a written notice stating another place of residence.

  • Upon such service of process, the court in which the action is filed is considered to have jurisdiction in personam, and the nonresident agent or broker has 40 days after the date of service upon the Commissioner to plead, answer, or otherwise defend the action. In any action in which the process is so served, the plaintiff shall pay the Commissioner the actual costs for service of process, which sum is be taxed as a part of the costs in the action if the plaintiff prevails. The Commissioner shall enter alphabetically in a process book, kept for that purpose, the name of plaintiff and defendant, the title and number, if any, of the cause in which process has been served upon him, and the day and hour when the service was made.


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