Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 63-15-1 (2026)
Short title
✓ current as of July 2026
This chapter may be cited as the "Mississippi Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Law."
Codes, 1942, § 8285-40; Laws, 1952, ch. 359, § 39, eff. 1/1/1953.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 17
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1978–2025 · leading case: State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. v. Universal Underwriters Ins., 797 So. 2d 981 (Miss. 2001).
State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. v. Universal Underwriters Ins., 797 So. 2d 981 (Miss. 2001). “Therefore, the "law," State Farm postulates, must be in reference to the Mississippi Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law, Miss.Code Ann. §§ 63-15-1 to -75 (1996 & Supp.”
Overstreet v. Allstate Ins. Co., 474 So. 2d 572 (Miss. 1985). “, (1972), and § 63-15-1, et seq., (1972), require that the benefits under the policy which were payable due to the injuries of Blue be paid to the persons designated by the wrongful death statute.”
Universal Underwriters Ins. v. Am. Motorists Ins., 541 F. Supp. 755 (N.D. Miss. 1982). “The key issue becomes the interpretation and effect of the pertinent provisions of the Mississippi Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law, Miss.Code Ann. § 63-15-1, et seq. (1972), a statutory scheme which requires the operator of a motor vehicle following an accident, to…”
State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Mettetal, 534 So. 2d 189 (Miss. 1988). “This appeal from the chancellor's order involves a single issue: Does § 63-15-43 of Mississippi's Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law, codified as Mississippi Code Annotated Section 63-15-1 et seq. (1972 and Supp. 1987), apply to all automobile liability insurance policies…”
Spradlin v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 650 So. 2d 1383 (Miss. 1995). “§ 83-11-101 sets the limits for UM coverage to be "no less than those set forth in the Mississippi Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law," Miss. Code Ann. § 63-15-1 et seq. Mississippi's Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law provides in part that an owner's policy of…”
Thomas v. Deviney Const. Co., 458 So. 2d 694 (Miss. 1984). “This instrument requested that Deviney admit or deny that the company had ever filed any application to be self insured or had ever been issued any certificate of self insurance under the provisions of Mississippi Code Annotated, Section 63-15-1, et seq. (1983 Supp.)…”
Wilson v. Nationwide Mut. Ins., 667 F. Supp. 349 (N.D. Miss. 1987). “The Act, in conjunction with the Mississippi Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law, Miss.Code Ann. § 63-15-1, et seq. (1972), states that no insurance policy may be issued in the state unless it provides coverage for accidents occurring between insured and uninsured motorists.”
Fred A. Hague v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 571 F.2d 262 (5th Cir. 1978). “Miss.Code Ann. §§ 63-15-1 et seq. (1972).”
Stratford Ins. v. Cooley, 985 F. Supp. 665 (S.D. Miss. 1996). “Finally, they assert that Stratford has in any event either waived the radius exclusion or is estopped from applying the exclusion by its failure to timely apprise Cooley of its denial of coverage.”
Rampy ex rel. Rampy v. Austin, 718 F. Supp. 556 (S.D. Miss. 1989). “Furthermore, we find nothing in Miss.Code Ann. § 63-15-1, et seq., which would require this finding.”
Preferred Risk Ins. Co. v. Ins. Co. of North Am., 824 F. Supp. 614 (S.D. Miss. 1993). “(MCA § 63-15-1 et seq.) MCA § 63 — 15—3(j) provides: "Proof of financial responsibility” means proof of the ability to respond in damages for liability, on account of accidents .”
Coleman v. Am. Mfrs. Mut. Ins., 930 F. Supp. 255 (N.D. Miss. 1996). “There is no evidence before the court that the City of Greenville complied with the provisions of § 63-15-1, et seq. and its subsequent obligations to provide proof of financial responsibility, and this court does not expect that the City of Greenville has done so.”
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