Best Car Accident Lawyers in West Palm Beach, FL

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧? The defendant in a slip and fall case served the plaintiff with a proposal for settlement for five-thousand dollars. The proposal named two defendants, stating that one defendant would pay the five thousand dollars, and the other would pay nothing. The proposal did not provide a time frame for payment.  The trial court concluded that the proposal was ambiguous.  In reversing, the appellate court noted that nothing in the statute or rule expressly requires that a settlement proposal contain a provision indicating the date for payment.  Additionally, it found the proposal had been properly apportioned, even though it indicated that one defendant would pay nothing.