Making Money Talk: How to Mediate Insured Claims and Other Monetary Disputes

Learn how to deal with the peculiar problems of traditional bargaining through proven models and techniques that will help you to:

• Gain a better understanding of the dynamics of money negotiations;
• Identify the recurring problems presented in those cases
• Acquaint and arm yourself with new tools to handle those challenges;
• Build a model of the mediation process that will serve as a roadmap when traditional bargaining is unavoidable; and
• Assist the parties in traditional bargaining in a facilitative, rather than a directive way.

The book also includes an appendix comprised of proposals and counter proposals made by Plaintiffs and Defendants in over one hundred court-ordered mediations in the superior courts in North Carolina. The charts provide the reader with a sense of the difficulty in settling a case through traditional bargaining, and the frequency of settlement even when the parties' initial positions are far apart and movement is slow to materialize.