17:46C-2 - Legislative declarations - New Jersey Statutes

17:46C-2.  Legislative declarations
    It is declared that there is a need to encourage the development of effective and economically sound methods for making legal services more readily  available at reasonable cost to the citizens of New Jersey;  that there is a  need to protect the interest 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;  that the risks inherent in  experimentation with legal services plans should be borne by the promoters of  new plans rather than by the customers;  that persons other than professional  insurers should be permitted and encouraged to provide legal services, subject  to practical and reasonable financial and regulatory requirements;  that  effective competition between the various systems of financing legal services  should be permitted and encouraged;  and that it is the purpose of this act to meet the aforementioned needs and accomplish the aforementioned objectives.

     L.1981, c. 160, s. 2.