New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 11 - INSURANCE
Chapter 1 - ADMINISTRATION
Subchapter 25 - OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT MAILING AND ELECTRONIC MAILING LISTS: ADDRESS INFORMATION
Section 11:1-25.4 - Foreign insurers-designation of individual for service of process through Commissioner
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) A foreign insurer may specify an individual to receive papers that have been served on the Commissioner as its agent pursuant to 17:32-2 (property and casualty insurers) and N.J.S.A. 17B:23-2c (life and health insurers).
(b) To designate an individual to receive papers served on the foreign insurer through the Commissioner, the foreign insurer must complete a designation form and return this form to the Department. The designation form can be obtained from the Department's website at: http://www.state.nj.us/dobi/index.shtml, or a hard copy can be obtained from the Department upon request.
(c) If a foreign insurer has specified an individual to receive papers served on the Commissioner pursuant to (a) above, the Department shall, upon being served, mail all papers to the specified individual by certified mail, return receipt requested. If the mailing to the specified individual is returned to the Department without service upon the designated individual, then the Department shall mail all papers to the Company Secretary by regular mail, as provided in 11:1-25.3(c).
(d) If a foreign insurer does not specify an individual to receive papers served on the Commissioner, then the Department shall mail all papers to the Company Secretary by certified mail, return receipt requested, as provided in 11:1-25.3(c).
(e) Each foreign insurer shall immediately notify the Department upon any change in the individual designated for mailing of papers served upon the Commissioner as its agent.