It shall be unlawful for any company to make any contract of insurance upon or concerning any property or interest or lives in this state, or with any resident thereof, or for any person as insurance agent or insurance broker to make, negotiate, solicit, or in any manner aid in the transaction of such insurance unless and except as authorized under the provisions of this chapter. All contracts of insurance on property, lives, or interests in this state shall be deemed to be made therein.
Miss. Code Ann. § 83-5-7
Situs of contract
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Highlands Insurance Company v. Allstate Insurance Company (1982)
Most recently applied in Bowers v. Jefferson Pilot Financial Insurance (January 2004)
Codes, 1906, § 2563; Hemingway’s 1917, § 5028; 1930, § 5131; 1942, § 5633.
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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.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.