(215 ILCS 5/105) (from Ch. 73, par. 717)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
Sec. 105.
Director as agent;
service of process.
(1) The attorney-in-fact of every Lloyds transacting business in this
State shall file with the Director a duly executed instrument whereby such
Lloyds shall appoint and constitute the Director, his successor or
successors in office, the true and lawful agent of such Lloyds upon whom
all lawful process in any action or legal proceeding against such Lloyds
may be served, and shall agree that any lawful process against such Lloyds
which may be served upon said agent shall be of the same force and validity
as if served upon the attorney-in-fact, and that the authority thereof
shall continue in force irrevocably so long as any liability of such Lloyds
in this State shall remain outstanding.
(2) In any suit instituted against any domestic, foreign or alien Lloyds
transacting business in this State, it shall not be necessary to name the
underwriters as parties defendant, but such Lloyds may be named
as the party defendant in any such suit and service may be had upon all the
underwriters by service upon the last appointed attorney-in-fact or by
service upon the Director, and not otherwise. Any such suit may be brought
in the county in which the cause of action arises or in which the claimant
resides. When such process is served upon the Director as agent to accept
service, duplicate copies of such process shall be delivered to him and he
shall immediately forward one copy of each such process to the last
appointed attorney-in-fact by certified or registered mail, postage
prepaid, giving the
day and hour of such service.
(Source: P.A. 88-535.)
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