Weber v. Associated Surgeons, PS

¶1 A plaintiff may serve a defendant corporation by delivering a summons and complaint to the corporation’s registered agent or the registered agent’s secretary or office assistant. The defendant corporation here was registered but no longer active. The plaintiffs served a “practice manager” of a nonparty corporation where the defendant corporation’s registered agent now worked. We conclude that this did not satisfy the statutory requirements. And we therefore affirm the trial court’s dismissal of the case.

FACTS

¶2 Charles Weber suffered leg injuries on November 29, 2002. Michael Moore, MD,…