Rejection of a Calderbank offer primarily on the basis of confidence in success on appeal is unreasonable where the appeal is bound to fail and does not raise significant questions of law. The general reluctance of appeal courts to encourage Calderbank approaches does not apply where the appeal involves only the application of well-established principles to facts.
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