TCA § 56-43-102 — Construction — Legislative intent

This chapter shall be interpreted liberally in order to: Encourage the development of effective and economically sound methods for making legal services more readily available; 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; Seek to have the risk inherent in experimentation borne by the promoters of new plans rather than by the consumers; Permit and encourage the providing of legal services through persons other than professional insurers subject to practical and reasonable financial and regulatory requirements; Permit and encourage fair and effective competition among the various systems of financing legal services; and Maintain a high level of quality and conformity to professional insurers subject to practical and reasonable financial and regulatory requirements.