Guam § 15806 - Status of Companies Issuing Insurance: Liability to

§ 15806. Status of Companies Issuing Insurance: Liability to

Suit: Duty of Agent on Being Served with Process: Time for

Answer: When Jurisdiction Deemed Acquired.

(a) Every company, insurer or insurers making insurance

under the provisions of this section shall be deemed and held to

be doing business in Guam as an unlicensed concern, and may be

sued upon any cause of action arising under any policy of

insurance so issued and delivered by it.

(b) Any broker or agent being served with summons and

complaint in any such cause shall forthwith mail such summons

and complaint, or true and complete copies thereof, by registered

letter with proper postage affixed, properly addressed to the

company sued, and such company shall have forty (40) days from

the date of the service of such summons and complaint upon said

broker or agent in which to plead, answer or defend any such

cause.

(c) Upon service of summons and complaint being had upon

such broker or agent for such company, the court in which such

action is begun shall be deemed to have duly acquired jurisdiction

in personam of the defendant company so served.