{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-18-13","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-18-13","heading":"Responsibilities of insurer utilizing services of administrator.","body":"(1) If an insurer utilizes the services of an administrator, the insurer shall be responsible for determining the benefits, premium rates, underwriting criteria and claims payment procedures applicable to such coverage and for securing reinsurance, if any. The rules pertaining to these matters must be provided, in writing, by the insurer to the administrator. The responsibilities of the administrator as to any of these matters shall be set forth in the written agreement between the administrator and the insurer.\n(2) It is the sole responsibility of the insurer or employer to provide for competent administration of its programs.\n(3) In cases where an administrator benefits for more than one hundred (100) certificate holders on behalf of an insurer, the insurer shall, at least semiannually, conduct a review of the operations of the administrator. At least one (1) such review shall be an on-site audit of the operations of the administrator.","path":["Title 83. Insurance","Chapter 18. Insurance Administrators and Managing General Agents","Insurance Administrators"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.83.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:33Z","sha256":"777301a76958d70fa282c0a14b8272971d5cad311e2f037f524d11fb4452f12f","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-18-11","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-18-15","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}