A walk-away offer of compromise made almost immediately after filing of a Notice of Appeal, requiring near-complete capitulation and unsupported by evidence of costs that would have been forgone, does not represent a genuine compromise sufficient to attract a special costs order under UCPR r 42.15A. Respondents seeking indemnity costs based on rejected offers should adduce evidence of the costs they would have forgone had the offer been accepted.
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