What recourse is there to an opposing party whose answer to the complaint is a general denial of all the allegations...even verbatim statements of the statutes.

well, I think the course teaches options ... either reply to affirmative defenses or move into discovery tools ... and nail the opposition with good discovery methods.

Michael
as to the opposing parties denial of verbatim statements of the statues,Use your request for admissions and get him to admit or file a motion to compel.You can get admissions of fact or law.If he doesn't follow the rules move the court to have requests admitted
by default.
Hope that helps
Tom

Tom...I appreciate your response. I had experience where opposing counsel made a one statement generally denying all of the statements in its answer to complaint. I then converted the pleadings to request for admission. They respondent did everything to render its response to the admission worthless. I moved to compel. The respondent moved for protective order. The respondent got the protective order.

I was trying to figure out how to address the general denial up front rather than go through the fruitless exercise above.