Construction — Legislative Intent

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This chapter shall be interpreted liberally in order to:

  1. Encourage the development of effective and economically sound methods for making legal services more readily available;
  2. Protect the interests of the users of legal services and of the public of this state with a minimum of restrictions on experimentation with new forms of organization, administration, or benefits;
  3. Seek to have the risk inherent in experimentation borne by the promoters of new plans rather than by the consumers;
  4. Permit and encourage the providing of legal services through persons other than professional insurers subject to practical and reasonable financial and regulatory requirements;
  5. Permit and encourage fair and effective competition among the various systems of financing legal services; and
  6. Maintain a high level of quality and conformity to professional insurers subject to practical and reasonable financial and regulatory requirements.


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