3996 In determining what percentages of the award against a health care provider in an action for professional negligence were allocated to economic and noneconomic damages, the dollar amount allocated to economic damages should be divided by the dollar amount of total damages sustained without first reducing noneconomic damages to the MICRA cap; the total amount of noneconomic damages awarded against a health care provider in an action for professional negligence should be reduced by the percentage of fault allocated to other tortfeasors before reducing the award to the MICRA cap.

FRANCIES v KAPLA (Prop 51 / MICRA) 127 CA4 1381 [See: CivC 56 etseq, 1431.1, 3333.2; CCP 877; Greathouse v Amcord 35 CA4 831, T/AT 7/95; Espinoza v Machonga 9 CA4 268, T/AT 11/92; McAdory v Rogers 215 CA3 1273; Salgado v County of LA 19 C4 629, T/AT 1/99]