What are the costs of rejecting a defense offer?

The court then ruled that plaintiff had failed to show that the defense offer that she rejected was a "token" offer made in bad faith. (See Santantonio v. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co., Inc. (1994) 25 Cal.App.4th 102, 116-117.) Because there was no evidence the defense offer was made in bad faith, the court granted defendant's motion to tax certain costs items that were shown to have been incurred by plaintiff after the offer

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was made. "These costs constitute non-recoverable post-offer costs under Code of Civil Procedure section 998(c)."