State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Nichols

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• holding that a general release is a relevant condition or nonmonetary term that must be described with particularity in the offer
• stating that even some ambiguity will be tolerated if it does not reasonably affect the offeree's decision
• stating that “a summary of the proposed release can be sufficient to satisfy rule 1.442”
• explaining that “the proposal should be capable of execution without the need for judicial interpretation” (quoting Lucas v. Calhoun, 813 So.2d 971, 973 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002))
• noting the “long-recognized principle of statutory construction that where two statutory provisions are in conflict, the specific statute controls over the general statute”
• explaining proposal for settlement must either attach the release or sufficiently summarize its terms

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).