Section 1557.

(a) Any plan of merger, consolidation, or other unification under this article shall provide that all rights and properties of the parties to the plan of merger, consolidation, or other unification shall accrue to, and become the rights and properties of, the surviving or consolidated or continuing insurer which shall succeed to and assume all the obligations and liabilities of the merged, consolidating, or transferring insurer in the same manner as if incurred or contracted by the surviving, consolidated, or continuing insurer.

(b) All rights of creditors and all liens upon the property of each of the constituent incorporated insurers and constituent reciprocal insurers shall be preserved unimpaired, provided that those liens upon property of a disappearing incorporated insurer or disappearing reciprocal insurer shall be limited to the property affected thereby immediately prior to the time the merger is effective.

(c) Any action or proceeding pending by or against any disappearing incorporated insurer or disappearing reciprocal insurer may be prosecuted to judgment, which shall bind the surviving incorporated insurer or surviving reciprocal insurer, or the surviving incorporated insurer or surviving reciprocal insurer may be proceeded against or substituted in its place.

(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 728, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)