O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 33-35-12 (2019)

Standards for advertising and solicitation

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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All advertising and solicitation concerning prepaid legal services plans shall be conducted in a simple, dignified manner. Every item of advertising or solicitation shall conform with the following standards:

(1) The form and content of any advertisement or solicitation shall be accurate and shall be sufficiently complete and clear to avoid deception or the capacity or tendency to mislead or deceive. Whether an advertisement has a capacity or tendency to mislead or deceive shall be determined by the Commissioner from the overall impression that the advertisement may be reasonably expected to create upon a person of average education or intelligence within the segment of the public to which it is directed or within a segment of the public to which such advertisement may be reasonably calculated to reach;

(2) All advertisements and solicitations shall be truthful and not misleading in fact or in implication. Words or phrases, the meaning of which is clear only by implications or by familiarity with insurance terminology, shall not be used;

(3) Advertising and solicitation which include references to the legal rights or remedies of citizens shall be legally accurate;

(4) Advertising and solicitation which include references to the particular characteristics of one or more sponsors or prepaid legal services plans or which compare one or more sponsors or prepaid legal services plans shall be truthful and not misleading; and

(5) No advertising or solicitation shall contain the name, address, telephone number, or any other identifying information about any attorney; and no such advertising or solicitation shall extol the alleged virtues or qualifications or point out the alleged shortcomings of any attorney, whether named or not; provided, however, that communications directed solely to existing subscribers of prepaid legal services plans which restrict their benefits to services rendered by attorneys preselected by the plan may include the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of participating attorneys.

History

Code 1933, § 56-3510, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 1268, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 33.

Annotations

Cross references. - Solicitation on behalf of attorneys generally, § 15-19-55.