CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Opinion & Scientific Evidence
......Expert Testimony: In General
.........Expert Witness Fees
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Payment of expert witness fees for deposing experts.

Where no judgment as yet entered re six of the 20 Ds on whose behalf a CCP 998 offer was made and rejected, trial court erred in awarding expert witness fees to the 14 Ds already dismissed from the case.

Health care practitioner treating civil litigant, deposed as percipient W by opposing party, only entitled to expert fee if asked for opinion during deposition. [Abrogated by (former) CCP 2034 (i)(2).]