2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 51 - Courts
Chapter 876 - Attorneys
Section 51-86 - Soliciting persons to institute actions for damages.


CT Gen Stat § 51-86 (2013) What's This?

(a) A person who has not been admitted as an attorney in this state under the provisions of section 51-80 shall not solicit, advise, request or induce another person to cause an action for damages to be instituted, from which action or from which person the person soliciting, advising, requesting or inducing the action may, by agreement or otherwise, directly or indirectly, receive compensation from such other person or such person’s attorney, or in which action the compensation of the attorney instituting or prosecuting the action, directly or indirectly, depends upon the amount of the recovery therein.

(b) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both.

(1949 Rev., S. 7640; P.A. 82-248, S. 73.)

History: P.A. 82-248 made technical revision, rewording some provisions and dividing section into Subsecs. but made no substantive change.

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