Of course, the best features of this type of assistance for employees are that the services are very affordable and easily accessible to all the members.
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These cookies do not store any personal information. Non-necessary Non-necessary. In the s Pre-Paid Legal offered several different prepaid plans.
About 40 percent of its customers worked for a company with legal insurance as a benefit funded by payroll deductions. Some 60 percent of all Pre-Paid Legal customers chose one of five individual options. In over 90 percent of individual Pre-Paid Legal customers chose the Family Plan, which allowed the customer to have preventive legal services such as unlimited toll-free phone consultations, correspondence, will preparation, and review of all legal documents. The Family Plan also covered trial defense, Internal Revenue Service audit assistance, and motor vehicle legal services.
Since , the company has offered its Commercial Driver Legal Plan designed for truck drivers and others who drove commercial vehicles. Underwritten by the Road America Motor Club, this plan's benefits included legal assistance in case of moving and nonmoving violations, arrest and bail bonds, tragic accident defense, car rental discounts, and ambulance services. In Pre-Paid Legal began offering its Law Officers Legal Plan, which provided many benefits in the Family Plan, plus hour emergency telephone access to attorneys and also legal assistance for any administrative and post-termination hearings.
The firm's Small Business Legal Plan was first developed and marketed in Pre-Paid Legal added two other plans for targeted groups in the s. In it developed the School Teachers Legal Plan to help teachers facing administrative hearings. Two years later the company worked with a CPA firm to introduce its Tax and Financial Services Plan, designed to help Pre-Paid Legal sales associates receive the legal advice needed to prepare their state and federal income tax forms.
Regardless of the specific legal plan, Pre-Paid Legal customers were entitled to limited benefits. For additional services from a provider attorney, they received a discount, usually 25 percent off standard hourly fees. In the s Pre-Paid Legal added some new features to its multilevel marketing system. Beginning March 1, , it introduced a level commission schedule where commissions of about 25 percent were paid during each year customers paid their premiums.
Previously, Pre-Paid Legal had paid first-year commissions of around 70 percent, followed by commissions in later years of about 16 percent. Pre-Paid Legal Services at that time promoted 14 of its top distributors to become regional vice presidents.
This decentralization gave each RVP the responsibility to train sales associates within his or her area. Third, Pre-Paid Legal began on January 4, a one-day classroom and field training program for sales associates. By the end of , Pre-Paid Legal had , active sales associates, an increase from 78, active associates in The company defined active associates as those who sold at least three new contracts per quarter or retained his or her personal contract. Similar to other companies using MLM, a significant number of sales associates or distributors worked part-time.
Pre-Paid Legal also was developing a cooperative marketing strategy where insurance companies and other service companies would use their established agents to offer the various Pre-Paid Legal plans in addition to their regular policies. In its annual report, Pre-Paid Legal stated it had "mixed success with cooperative marketing arrangements in the past and is unable to predict with certainty what success it will achieve, if any, under its current cooperative marketing arrangements.
Another marketing strategy used by Pre-Paid Legal in the s took advantage of the fame of sports celebrities. In the company entered a marketing agreement to use the services of Roger Staubach, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback. This new benefit allowed small businesses to receive motivational audio tapes, newsletters, advice on setting up a web site, and various other aides.
This was a good example of the joint operations characteristic of business life in the Information Age. Like all businesses, Pre-Paid Legal was concerned about government laws and regulations.
In , according to a Salomon Brothers report, only 14 states regulated prepaid legal services companies as insurance businesses, while the American Bar Association monitored the interaction between Pre-Paid Legal and similar firms with their provider attorneys.
There appeared to be some confusion on regulation of this new industry. The situation in California, the leading state in social and economic trends, illustrated this disorder. A California Bar official in a July 9, Los Angeles Times article stated prepaid legal service firms were not required to register with the bar, but that the various plans came under state Insurance Department rules.
However, representatives of the California Insurance Department said the bar, not the state agency, regulated the plans. By , Pre-Paid Legal had contracts with 35 law firms, ranging in size from 10 to 60 attorneys. For example, the Columbus law firm of Maguire, Vivyan and Schneider was the only firm in Ohio authorized to provide legal services for Pre-Paid Legal customers.
However, the North Carolina State Bar does regulate the conduct of the lawyers who provide legal services to the participants in the prepaid plan.
North Carolina General Statute Section Annual registration renewal forms are mailed to registered prepaid plans in early to mid-October of each year. The annual registration renewal form can be found here. The annual registration fee is non-refundable.
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