{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-17-46c-2","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 17:46C-2","heading":"Legislative declarations","body":"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.\nL.1981, c. 160, s. 2.","path":["TITLE 17 CORPORATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR FINANCE \t\t\tAND INSURANCE"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"280088590d7dafe5dc80e5944d344bc078ad5ba9675d627bdf002eadf5acccac","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-17-46c-1","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-17-46c-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}