§ 2034.240.Service of demand

This section is short because its job is narrow: it fixes who has to receive a copy of a demand for exchange of expert witness information once one has been served. The party making the demand has to serve it on every party who has appeared in the action, not only on whichever opposing party the demanding party is most concerned with.

That broad service requirement matters because the exchange this chapter sets up is mutual and simultaneous among everyone involved. If the demand only reached some of the appeared parties, the exchange itself could not function as designed, since every appeared party is expected to produce its own expert list, and any required declarations, on the same exchange date. Serving the demand on all appeared parties is what makes that reciprocal timing possible in a case with more than two sides.