Mississippi Insurance (MS)

At the end of 2000, 35 life and health and 17 property and casualty insurance companies were domiciled in Mississippi. In 2001 there were 1.8 million ordinary life insurance policies in force with a total value of $81.3 billion; total value for all categories of life insurance (ordinary, group, industrial, and credit) was $123.3 billion. Death benefits paid that year totaled $421.9 million. In 2001, property and casualty insurers wrote premiums totaling $2.9 billion. That year, there were 41,555 flood insurance policies in force in the state, with a total value of $3.7 million.