{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-5-23","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-5-23","heading":"Reserves required.","body":"Every company transacting a fire, marine, inland, accident or casualty, surety or fidelity, or other insurance business, except life, in this state shall be required to set aside as a legal reserve to protect the holders of its policy contracts in this state the pro rata unearned portion of the premium paid for such contract, to be held until termination of such contracts, and a reserve for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses for incurred claims both reported and unreported. Life insurance companies shall set aside as a reserve sufficient of the premium paid each year which, if invested at four percent (4%) interest, will pay the amount of insurance contracted for at maturity of the contract.","path":["Title 83. Insurance","Chapter 5. General Provisions Relative to Insurance and Insurance Companies","Article 1. General Provisions."],"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":"60c2e0d8cb0148c6db60bd8b42ac0abc623fabbb4e8212e1a614a2fb82e9dcef","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-5-21","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-5-25","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."}