Mississippi auto insurance News

Mississippi to Stop Suspending Driver’s Licenses Over Unpaid Fines

A top Mississippi official said Tuesday that the state will stop suspending people’s driver’s licenses purely because they haven’t paid court fines and fees, meaning tens of thousands of people who lost driving privileges could get them back in coming …

Mississippi House Passes Bill to Enforce Mandatory Auto Insurance Requirement

House members are approving a bill that would require county tax collectors to check whether Mississippians have auto insurance before renewing their license tags. Representatives voted 82-33 Jan. 11 to approve House Bill 319, sending it to the Senate for …

Mississippi Online System Aims to Catch Uninsured Drivers

A contractor projects that a system to instantly verify whether Mississippians have auto insurance would lead to fines of more than $150 million a year being collected over the program’s first three years The computer system was supposed to launch …

Mississippi House Revisits Vetoed Auto Insurance Verification Bill

A proposal to set up online computer checks to make sure drivers have auto insurance is again moving forward in the Mississippi House. A similar measure was vetoed last year by then-Gov. Haley Barbour. According to 2009 numbers from the …