Compromise Offers and Negotiations.

• A. Furnishing, promising, or offering - or accepting, promising to accept, or offering to accept - a valuable consideration in compromising or attempting to compromise the claim
• B. Statements made during compromise negotiations about the claim
• C. Admissions of fault at trial
• D. Testimony to prove ownership

Answer: (C)

The main concept is that evidence from settlement discussions is generally not allowed to prove liability or the amount of a claim. This rule encourages people to negotiate freely without worrying that what they say while negotiating will be used against them later.

Furnishing or promising to furnish something of value in a settlement, or accepting or promising to accept it, and any statements made during compromise negotiations about the claim, are excluded from use to prove liability or the claim’s value. Those are the kinds of settlement communications the rule aims to shield.

Admissions of fault at trial, on the other hand, are not part of settlement negotiations. As a party opponent’s admission, they are typically admissible under the normal rules of evidence to prove fault or liability. They fall outside the protection of compromise negotiations, so they can be used in court.

Testimony to prove ownership isn’t tied to the settlement-communication rule and would be evaluated by relevance and other applicable rules like any other factual testimony.