No - not for the other driver's insurance company after a Mississippi injury claim. They can ask, but they cannot force you to give a recorded statement, and they also cannot require you to sign a broad medical release just because you were hurt.

Under Mississippi law, the insurer for the person who injured you is allowed to investigate, but that does not create a duty for you to help them build defenses. What matters right now is protecting your claim before evidence disappears. In most Mississippi injury cases, the filing deadline is 3 years under Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49. That sounds like plenty of time, but crash evidence, surveillance video, salt-truck logs, and witness memories can be gone much sooner.

A common example in Tupelo: a retired driver gets hit during winter driving season near McCullough Boulevard or on I-22 after a black-ice wreck. The adjuster calls while the person is still sore, shaken, and maybe waiting on follow-up care after being sent to North Mississippi Medical Center or transferred to UMMC in Jackson for internal injuries. The adjuster says, "We just need your side so we can move this along."

What they are often doing is locking you into early answers before the full injury picture is clear. If you later learn you have internal bleeding, a ruptured spleen, or balance problems that make living alone unsafe, they will compare everything to that first recording.

Two rights people miss:

• You can say no to a recorded statement from the other side's insurer.
• You can refuse a blanket medical authorization and limit records to treatment related to the injury.

If it is your own insurance company asking under UM/UIM or MedPay, the policy may require cooperation, so that is different. The other driver's insurer does not get to set the rules.