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They’re not paying your pre-litigation policy-limit demand. Now what?

Use the litigation process to give insurers every possible chance to do the right thing, and to force them when they don’t want to

Gene Sullivan
Ryan Medler

From Issue: 2023 August

The new CCP section 999 and policy-limit demands in auto cases

Newly enacted CCP section 999 changes the landscape of pre-litigation settlement demands by better defining what is a “reasonable” offer to settle

Ritsa Gountoumas

From Issue: 2023 August

Emotions, anger, neuroscience and the opening demand in mediation

Why some mediations fail right from the beginning as the parties retreat to their corners and never emerge

Barbara A. Reeves

From Issue: 2019 August

Appellate Reports

Ruling in med-mal case sets makes new law for making or responding to CCP 998 offers

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2019 February

The reasonable demand

How you can avoid receiving the insurer’s pesky “unable to accept or reject” letter

Phillip Younglove

From Issue: 2021 July

Multiple-occurrence policy limits demands

Multiple-occurrence policy limits demands

Recent cases support the use of this technique to maximize insurance coverage

Ryan Vlasak

From Issue: 2018 September

Demander beware!

A policy-limit demand is crucial to any claim for failure to settle, but making an incorrect demand can cripple your case

Matthew Clark

From Issue: 2017 September

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