The purpose of this article is to provide a mechanism for the payment of covered claims under certain insurance policies to avoid excessive delay in payment and to avoid financial loss to claimants or policyholders because of the insolvency of an insurer, to assist in the detection and prevention of insurer insolvencies, and to provide an association to assess the cost of such protection among insurers.
Miss. Code Ann. § 83-23-103
Purpose
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Miga v. Cole Ex Rel. Dillon (2007)
Most recently applied in Mississippi Insurance Guaranty Ass'n v. Mississippi Workers' Compensation Individual Self-Insurer Guaranty Ass'n (April 2012)
Codes, 1942, § 5814-52; Laws, 1970, ch. 446, § 2, eff from and after passage (approved April 6, 1970
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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