No agent, officer or attorney of any traffic association or freight bureau shall ask for, bid for or solicit any claim from any shipper or consignee against any transportation company, and no portion of any money paid by any company on any such reparation claim shall ever be paid to any such agent, officer or attorney of such traffic association or freight bureau who asks for, bids for or solicits any such claim from such shipper or consignee.
Ala. Code § 37-2-43 (1975)