Who regulates pre-paid legal plans?

Pre-paid legal service providers have to provide their written contract of the services provided into their plans, or at least a written communication regarding the services covered, along with the charges to be paid for services which are not covered in the written contract of a regular membership.

On the other hand, a lot of people gloss over “conditions and terms” and just sign the contract presuming they are covered for almost all legal services. Usually this brings about frequent difficulty with the service, payment disputes and problems with lawyers. 

Frequently, for those who have any complaint with your service, you need to first address any complaint while using the service with the service provider. You should contact them to get information and facts relating to their in-house complaint procedure and settlement deal of conflicts. In case you are not satisfied, then it will help to understand who regulates your kind of legal insurance policies.

Your state’s Section of client affairs licenses and controls all pre-paid legal plans. Prepaid legal or Legalshield service providing firms are required to register with the department before starting up business and employ a sales company representative. Additional regulation could be provided by the local bar association.