(1)(a) "Administration fee" means a nominal fee that:
(A) A legal access provider pays to an attorney;
(B) Is not more than $6 per month for each of the legal access provider’s customers, or a greater amount that the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services specifies by rule; and
(C) Covers overhead and administrative expenses that the attorney incurs in providing legal consultations or other legal services to a legal access provider’s customers.
(b) "Administration fee" does not include fees, charges or other compensation that an attorney charges to the attorney’s client for legal services or a reimbursement that a legal expense organization provides under a legal expense plan.
(2) "Legal access provider" means a person that charges a fee to a customer for the purpose of providing the customer with access to legal consultations and other legal services and that pays an administration fee to an attorney.
(3)(a) "Legal expense organization" or "organization" means a person or group of persons that provide or offer to provide a legal expense plan, including a person that acts as the legal expense plan’s administrator.
(b) "Legal expense organization" or "organization" does not include a legal access provider.
(4) "Legal expense plan" or "plan" means an agreement between an organization and a person or a group of persons under which the organization, in return for a specified payment as consideration, reimburses the person or group of persons as members of the plan for charges the person or group of persons incurs for legal services.
(5) "Member" means a person who is eligible to receive legal services under a legal expense plan.
(6) "Membership agreement" means written evidence of coverage of a member under a plan between an organization and members.
(7) "Provider agreement" means a written contract or agreement between an organization and a providing attorney for rendering legal services to a member or group of persons.
(8) "Providing attorney" means any attorney licensed and in good standing in this state who provides legal services in accordance with a membership agreement or a provider agreement.
(9) "Sales or marketing representative" means a person who markets or solicits members for or on behalf of a plan. [1989 c.331 §2; 2015 c.504 §1]