Legal Opinion
Freeman v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided June 9, 2000No. 33917PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
In this petition we are asked if the appointment of the commissioner of insurance as an agent to receive service of legal process pursuant, to NRS 680A.250, 1 by itself, subjects a nonresident insurance company to personal jurisdiction in Nevada. We hold that it does not.
FACTS
In August of 1998, Mark Freeman filed an action against West American Insurance Company (“West American”) and Ohio Casualty Insurance Company (“Ohio Casualty”) in Washoe County, Nevada, for malicious prosecution. Freeman has been a Nevada resident since 1994. Freeman’s claim arose from previous litigation in…
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