§ 23-91-202 - Construction and purposes. - Arkansas Statutes

23-91-202. Construction and purposes.

This subchapter shall be interpreted liberally in order to achieve the following purposes:

(1) To encourage the development of effective and economically sound methods of making legal services more readily available;

(2) To 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) To seek to have the risk inherent in experimentation borne by the promoters of new plans rather than by the consumers;

(4) To permit and encourage the providing of legal services through persons other than professional insurers subject to practical and reasonable financial and regulatory requirements;

(5) To permit and encourage fair and effective competition among the various systems of financing legal services; and

(6) To ensure that each person being provided with legal insurance has the right to seek performance of covered legal services by the attorney of his or her choice. The attorney shall be required to reasonably comply with the plan provisions.