A walk-away offer of compromise (judgment for the defendant with no order as to costs) engages UCPR r 42.15 and Calderbank principles where the offeror has already incurred significant costs, and a bare statement of total costs without breakdown of timing, rates, or likely recoverable amount is insufficient to support a gross sum costs order.
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