Mississippi Insurance Guaranty Ass'n v. Mississippi Workers' Compensation Individual Self-Insurer Guaranty Ass'n

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. The Mississippi Legislature created the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Self-Insurers Guaranty Association (“SIGA”) to pay workers’ compensation claims on behalf of insolvent self-insured employers; and it created the Mississippi Insurance Guaranty Association (“MIGA”) *2to pay claims on behalf of insolvent insurers. After an insolvent employer’s insurance company also became insolvent, SIGA made workers’ compensation payments to an injured worker. SIGA sued MIGA for reimbursement of those payments, and the trial court ordered reimbursement. But…