{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-21-45","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-21-45","heading":"Defense of action by unauthorized insurer.","body":"Before any unauthorized insurer shall file or cause to be filed any pleading in any action, suit, or proceeding instituted against it, such unauthorized insurer shall either (1) deposit cash or securities with the clerk of the court in which such action, suit, or proceeding is pending, or file with such clerk a bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court, in an amount to be fixed by the court sufficient to secure the payment of any final judgment which may be rendered in such actions; or (2) procure a certificate of authority to transact the business of insurance in this state.","path":["Title 83. Insurance","Chapter 21. Foreign Companies","Unauthorized Insurers Process Law"],"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":"aa5cc85983f037dd6fcf894fb549ee556e34119d0262eb84ec4ab7f23b39a78e","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-21-43","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-21-47","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."}