December 2: Offers of Judgment: Benefits, Pitfalls, Responses, and Impact on Insurance Coverage

Dina Richman and David Shimkin will present a Cozen O'Connor webinar titled, "Offers of Judgment: Benefits, Pitfalls, Responses, and Impact on Insurance Coverage" on Wednesday, December 2. This webinar will discuss how offers to compromise under [California] Code of Civil Procedure § 998 can have important effects on a case as well as what § 998 offers are, whether and under what circumstances these offers of judgment qualify as policy limit demands, and how these devices can affect insurance coverage.
The presenters will discuss:

• What are valid C.C.P. § 998 Offers to Compromise?
• Why parties, defendants, and reason plaintiffs serve 998s
• When an offer can be made
• C.C.P. § 998 offer served with complaint
• What a C.C.P. § 998 offer must be
• Offers involving multiple parties
• Offers to several plaintiffs jointly ineffective
• Wrongful death actions
• 998s from multiple parties
• Offers of Judgment as Policy Limits Demand
• Effect of failure to settle within policy limits
• Are offers of judgment policy limits demands?
• Evaluating offers of judgment from a coverage perspective.

Title:
Offers of Judgment: Benefits, Pitfalls, Responses, and Impact on Insurance Coverage

Webinar Date+Time:

December 2, 2020 

11:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
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Credit:

CLE is approved in CA, IL, NV, NY, PA, and TX. Other jurisdictions will be applied for upon request.

Speakers:

• Dina R. Richman
• David A. Shimkin

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