Montana Code Annotated 2013

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     33-2-1306. Personal jurisdiction. In addition to other grounds for jurisdiction provided by the law of this state, a court of this state having jurisdiction of the subject matter has jurisdiction over a person served pursuant to the Montana Rules of Civil Procedure or other applicable provisions of law in an action brought by the receiver of a domestic insurer or an alien insurer domiciled in this state:
     (1) if the person served is obligated to the insurer in any way as an incident to any agency or brokerage arrangement that may exist or has existed between the insurer and the insurance producer or broker in any action on or incident to the obligation;
     (2) if the person served is a reinsurer who has at any time written a policy of reinsurance for an insurer against which a rehabilitation or liquidation order is in effect when the action is commenced or is an insurance producer or broker of or for the reinsurer in any action on or incident to the reinsurance contract; or
     (3) if the person served is or has been an officer, manager, trustee, organizer, promoter, or person in a position of comparable authority or influence in an insurer against which a rehabilitation or liquidation order is in effect when the action is commenced in any action resulting from such a relationship with the insurer.

     History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 383, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 713, L. 1989.

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