INSURANCE CODE

TITLE 6. ORGANIZATION OF INSURERS AND RELATED ENTITIES

SUBTITLE H. OTHER ENTITIES

CHAPTER 961. NONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATIONS

SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 961.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:

(1) "Applicant" means a person applying for a contract for legal services to be performed through a nonprofit legal services corporation.

(2) "Benefit certificate" means a document issued to a participant that states the benefits and other required matters under a group contract for legal services or an individual contract for legal services issued to a participant.

(3) "Contracting attorney" means an attorney who has entered into a contract under Section 961.301.

(4) "Nonprofit legal services corporation" means a corporation created for the sole purpose of establishing, maintaining, and operating a nonprofit legal services plan under which the corporation contracts for and obtains legal services for participants through contracting attorneys in consideration of each participant's payment of a definite amount to fund the payment of the contracting attorneys' fees.

(5) "Participant" means a person entitled to performance of legal services under contract with a nonprofit legal services corporation.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.