According to the Hawaii Department of Attorney General, in mid-February 2021, a Hawaii state court judge ordered Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and three U.S.-based subsidiaries of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi (“Defendants”) to pay $834 million for violating Hawaii’s unfair and deceptive… Read More
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Hawaii Supreme Court Recognizes Loss Of Chance Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Death Claims
The Supreme Court of the State of Hawai’i (“Hawaii Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on May 5, 2020: “while a “loss of chance” is not a separate compensable injury under Hawaiʻi law, a factfinder in a medical malpractice… Read More
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$24.7M Hawaii Medical Malpractice Verdict By Federal Judge
A federal judge in Hawaii awarded a woman and her family $24,743,668.53 in damages in a federal medical malpractice case brought in Hawaii federal court pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, arising out of the treatment the woman received… Read More
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Hawaii Medical Malpractice Case Settled For Unnecessary Death Of 8-Year-Old
A Hawaii medical malpractice case filed after the unnecessary death of an 8-year-old second grader from Hilo, Hawaii was recently settled by the U.S. government for $850,000 (the health care clinic where the child was treated was a federally qualified… Read More
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$850,000 Medical Malpractice Settlement For Blindness Following Prostate Surgery
Who among us would ever expect to wake up blind following prostate surgery? That nightmare was the reality for a former military man who had undergone prostate surgery at a military hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. While continuing to deny liability, the… Read More
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$5.62M Hawaii Medical Malpractice Verdict Against ENT
On November 25, 2014, after a three-week trial, a Hawaii medical malpractice jury awarded $5.62 million to a 43-year-old man whose cancer was left undiagnosed for two years, during which it grew from the size of a lima bean to the size… Read More
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Hawaii Inmate Medical Malpractice Verdict Upheld
On December 31, 2013, the Intermediate Court of Appeals for the State of Hawaii (“Appellate Court”) issued its opinion in which it held that prison doctors are not shielded from personal liability for medical malpractice claims by the doctrine of… Read More
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3-Year-Old Dies From Dental Malpractice In Hawaii
A 3-year-old died on January 3, 2014 in Hawaii , one month after she suffered cardiac arrest and became comatose during a dental procedure. According to the dental malpractice case filed by the little girl’s parents on December 30, 20113, the child… Read More
