A federal judge allowed an injured motorcyclist’s lawsuit seeking a $10 million bad faith judgment against an insurer to go forward, ruling that Equity Insurance’s response to the woman’s policy-limit demand letter—which specified that she did not want to be contacted by its representatives—constituted a counteroffer and was therefore a rejection.

Thursday’s ruling by Judge Michael Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit instructed him to reconsider an earlier order dismissing the case and includes an order that case go to mediation before it can proceed to trial.

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