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.
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