Ind. Code § 34-50-1-4

Requirements of qualified settlement offer

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Courter v. Fugitt (1999)

Most recently applied in Ana Martins v. Richard Hill and Diana Hill (April 2019)

As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.46.

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Sec. 4. A qualified settlement offer must:

(1) be in writing;

(2) be signed by the offeror or the offeror's attorney of record;

(3) be designated on its face as a qualified settlement offer;

(4) be delivered to each recipient or recipient's attorney of record:

(A) by registered or certified mail; or

(B) by any method that verifies the date of receipt;

(5) set forth the complete terms of the settlement proposed by the offeror to the recipient in sufficient detail to allow the recipient to decide whether to accept or reject it;

(6) include the name and address of the offeror and the offeror's attorney of record, if any; and

(7) expressly revoke all prior qualified settlement offers made by the offeror to the recipient.

Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.