MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2021 Regular Session
To: Insurance
By: Representative Watson
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 83-11-101, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO MANDATE UNINSURED MOTORIST COVERAGE IN ALL AUTOMOBILE LIABILITY INSURANCE POLICIES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 83-11-101, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
83-11-101. (1) No
automobile liability insurance policy or contract shall be issued or delivered
after January 1, 1967, unless it contains an endorsement or provisions
undertaking to pay the insured all sums which he shall be legally entitled to
recover as damages for bodily injury or death, or would be legally entitled
to recover as damages for bodily injury or death but for the immunity provided
under the Mississippi Tort Claims Act, from the owner or operator of an
uninsured motor vehicle, within limits which shall be no less than those set
forth in the Mississippi Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law, as amended,
under provisions approved by the Commissioner of Insurance; however, at the
option of the insured, the uninsured motorist limits may be increased to limits
not to exceed those provided in the policy of bodily injury liability insurance
of the insured or such lesser limits as the insured elects to carry over the
minimum requirement set forth by this section. * * *
(2) No automobile liability
insurance policy or contract shall be issued or delivered after January 1,
1980, unless it contains an endorsement or provisions undertaking to pay the
insured all sums which he shall be legally entitled to recover as damages for property
damage, or would be legally entitled to recover as damages for property
damage but for the immunity provided under the Mississippi Tort Claims Act,
from the owner or operator of an uninsured motor vehicle, within limits which
shall be no less than those set forth in the Mississippi Motor Vehicle Safety
Responsibility Law, as amended, under provisions approved by the Commissioner
of Insurance; however, at the option of the insured, the uninsured motorist
limits may be increased to limits not to exceed those provided in the policy of
property damage liability insurance of the insured or such lesser limits as the
insured elects to carry over the minimum requirement set forth by this section. * * *
The property damage provision may provide an exclusion for the first Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) of such property damage; however, the uninsured motorist provision need not insure any liability for property damage, for which loss the policyholder has been compensated by insurance or otherwise.
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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.