Texas Insurance Code 961.001 – Definitions
Terms Used In Texas Insurance Code 961.001
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
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.