EPTL 5-4.3 provides that "[i]nterest upon the principal sum recovered by the plaintiff from the date of the decedent's death shall be added to . . . the total sum awarded." The statutory term "principal sum" is "simply the discounted sum without any included interest—i.e., discounted to the date of death" (Milbrandt v Green Refractories Co.,
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