Beard v. Calvert Fire Insurance

Felton, Chief Judge.

The 1960 Insurance Code (Code Ann. Ch. 56-12) authorizes service on a foreign insurance company by methods of service provided by law other than in the Insurance Code, hence on its local agent, as provided by Code § 22-1101 (Ga. L. 1845, Cobb, 475), as well as on the appointed process agent. Aetna Cas. &c. Co. v. Sampley, 108 Ga. App. 617, 620 (3) (134 SE2d 71). Code § 22-1101 also provides for service “by leaving the same at the place of transacting the usual and ordinary public business of such corporation, if any such place of business then shall be within the…