Leung v. Verdugo Hills Hospital

Opinion

WILLHITE, J.

Verdugo Hills Hospital (Hospital) petitions for a writ of supersedeas directing the trial court to reduce the amount of its appeal bond. Code of Civil Procedure section 917.1 requires the posting of an undertaking to stay a money judgment pending appeal. (Code Civ. Proc., § 917.1, subd. (a)(1).) It sets the amount of the undertaking, if provided “by an admitted surety,” at “one and one-half times the amount of the judgment.” (§ 917.1, subd. (b).) The Hospital’s appeal is from a medical malpractice judgment which, as stated in the judgment, has a present value of…