(1) RCW 48.15.150 permits service of legal process against an unauthorized insurer to be made upon the commissioner. The commissioner will mail the documents of process to the insurer at its principal place of business last known to the commissioner, or to a person designated by the insurer for that purpose in the most recent document filed with the commissioner on a form prescribed by the commissioner. If an unauthorized insurer elects to designate a person to receive legal process from the commissioner, the designation must be in writing and filed with the commissioner in substantially the form set forth on the commissioner's website at: www.insurance.wa.gov.

(2) The person designated by the insurer to receive legal process may be an individual, firm or corporation.

(3) The process documents will be forwarded by the commissioner to the person designated in the most recent notice filed with the commissioner.

(4) As specified in RCW 48.15.150, each policy issued by an unauthorized insurer as a surplus line contract must designate the commissioner as the person upon whom service of process may be made.