Arreola v. Napole
Plaintiff Maria Arreola appeals from a $1 million judgment in her favor entered following an attempted acceptance of her settlement offers by defendants Ronaldo Napole and World Express Tech, Inc. pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 998. She also appeals from a post-judgment order denying her motion to set aside the judgment pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 473. We conclude that, even though the offers were not valid statutory offers under Code of Civil Procedure section 998, they were valid non-statutory offers, and defendants did not properly accept them according to their terms. Therefore, we reverse the judgment the trial court entered pursuant to section 998.
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