Tex. Insurance Code § 961.001
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 961.001, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 961.001. DEFINITIONS.
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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.
(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.
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