Deocampo

In this suit for personal injury based on allegations of medical malpractice, plaintiff Joe Deocampo (plaintiff) appeals from an amended judgment. Defendants Richard S. Ahn, M.D. and Melvin Belafsky, M.D. (Ahn, Belafsky, collectively defendants) have cross-appealed from the same amended judgment.

The judgment was amended to include the court’s decisions on certain postjudgment matters, and it is these that are the subject of this appeal. They relate to (1) the proper calculation of the credit due to nonsettling defendants for a plaintiffs prior settlement with the settling defendants, (2) the payment of the plaintiffs attorney’s fees entirely out of the nonperiodized portion of the judgment, (3) the scope and extent of a plaintiffs right to prejudgment interest on the periodized portion of a judgment relating to future losses, (4) the proper analysis of a multiple plaintiffs’ statutory offer to compromise and the effectiveness of such offer when it is conditioned upon the accuracy of a defendant’s discovery representations regarding insurance coverage, (5) the impact of a settlement with some defendants on the calculation of prejudgment interest against the nonsettling…