Lickess v. McComb
Filed 6/12/06 Lickess v. McComb CA2/7
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION SEVEN
| CATHERINE LICKISS, a Minor, etc., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. J. GORDON MCCOMB, Defendant and Appellant. | B177318 (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. BC221808) |
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Alexander H. Williams, III, Judge. Affirmed.
Contos & Bunch and Bruce M. Bunch for Plaintiff and Respondent.
Horvitz & Levy, H. Thomas Watson, Nina E. Scholtz; Boone, Bridges, Mueller, O'Keefe & Nichols and Raymond L. Blessey for Defendant and Appellant.
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A doctor appeals from a medical malpractice judgment in favor of his former patient, who developed post-surgical infections that caused permanent learning disabilities and dependence on a shunt to drain fluid from her brain. The doctor does not challenge liability, but does challenge the sufficiency of evidence to support the damages, the jurisdiction of the court to award prejudgment interest dating from the time of an offer under Code of Civil Procedure[1] section 998, and the inclusion of that interest in the judgment in a lump sum with the costs. We affirm the judgment and the challenged orders.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL SUMMARY
I. FACTS
Born 1991, plaintiff and respondent Catherine Lickiss[2] developed normally from birth to 22 months of age, when a bump the size of a half cantaloupe emerged on the back of her head. In November 1993, Defendant and appellant J. Gordon McComb, M.D., a pediatric neurosurgeon, diagnosed Catherine with a â€
