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title: Demands and Offers
description: Advocate Magazine articles on Demands and Offers, from the Subject Matter Index.
url: https://www.advocatemagazine.com/tag/Demands%20and%20Offers
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## [They’re not paying your pre-litigation policy-limit demand. Now what?](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2023-august/they-re-not-paying-your-pre-litigation-policy-limit-demand-now-what "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](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/gene-sullivan "Gene Sullivan")
[Ryan Medler](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/ryan-medler "Ryan Medler")

From Issue: [2023 August](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2023-august)

## [The new CCP section 999 and policy-limit demands in auto cases](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2023-august/the-new-ccp-section-999-and-policy-limit-demands-in-auto-cases "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](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/ritsa-gountoumas "Ritsa Gountoumas")

From Issue: [2023 August](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2023-august)

## [Emotions, anger, neuroscience and the opening demand in mediation](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2019-august/emotions-anger-neuroscience-and-the-opening-demand-in-mediation "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](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/barbara-a-reeves "Barbara A. Reeves")

From Issue: [2019 August](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2019-august)

## [Appellate Reports](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2019-february/appellate-reports-19 "Appellate Reports")

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

[Jeffrey I. Ehrlich](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/jeffrey-i-ehrlich "Jeffrey I. Ehrlich")

From Issue: [2019 February](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2019-february)

## [The reasonable demand](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2021-july/the-reasonable-demand "The reasonable demand")

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

[Phillip Younglove](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/phillip-younglove "Phillip Younglove")

From Issue: [2021 July](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2021-july)

[![Multiple-occurrence policy limits demands](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/Vlasak-istock-74410705_eb20389a60f73fcbf016d26d9c29ccbc.jpg)](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2018-september/multiple-occurrence-policy-limits-demands "Multiple-occurrence policy limits demands")

## [Multiple-occurrence policy limits demands](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2018-september/multiple-occurrence-policy-limits-demands "Multiple-occurrence policy limits demands")

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

[Ryan Vlasak](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/ryan-vlasak "Ryan Vlasak")

From Issue: [2018 September](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2018-september)

## [Demander beware!](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2017-september/demander-beware "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](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/matthew-clark "Matthew Clark")

From Issue: [2017 September](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2017-september)