56-43-102 - Construction Legislative intent.

56-43-102. Construction Legislative intent.

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.

[Acts 1989, ch. 423, § 1.]