Nothing contained in Sections 83-21-17 through 83-21-31 shall authorize any person, firm, association, or corporation to guarantee or otherwise validate or secure the performance or legality of any agreement, instrument, or policy of insurance of any nonadmitted insurer, nor to permit or authorize any nonadmitted insurer to do any insurance business by or through any person or surplus lines insurance producer acting within this state; but surplus lines insurance producers licensed hereunder acting pursuant to the cited sections may issue and deliver to their clients, the insured, binders, policies, and other confirmation of direct insurance so lawfully placed, and shall not be personally liable to the holder of any policy of insurance so issued or delivered for any loss covered thereby.
Miss. Code Ann. § 83-21-27
Permissible acts of surplus lines insurance producers
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 646 F. Supp. 27 - Gray v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty (1986)
Most recently applied in 646 F. Supp. 27 - Gray v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty (April 1986)
Codes, 1906, § 2609; Hemingway’s 1917, § 5072; 1930, § 5195; 1942, § 5705-03; Laws, 1954, ch. 307, § 3; Laws, 1958, ch. 448, § 2; Laws, 2011, ch. 380, § 7, eff from and after pa…
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