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Hawai’i Supreme Court Expands Loss Of Parental Consortium Claims To Adult Children For Parent’s Severe Injuries

February 2, 2025

The Supreme Court of the State of Hawai’i held in its June 4, 2024 opinion in which the issue of first impression was whether an adult child’s claim of loss of parental consortium is cognizable when the parent has not died but has entered a persistent vegetative state and will not recover: &[...]

$9.5M Medical Malpractice Settlement Involving Tripler Army Medical Center For Botched Gastric Bypass Surgery

April 2, 2024

In January 2024, the United States government announced that it has agreed to settle a medical malpractice claim involving an alleged botched gastric bypass surgery that a 31-year-old patient underwent in November 2020 at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. The surgeons who performed th[...]

$30M Medical Malpractice Award Involving Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii

May 28, 2023

$30 Million Dollar Award Involving Army Medical Center: On May 22, 2023, a federal judge in Hawaii awarded $29,479,308 in a federal medical malpractice lawsuit involving the deficient medical care provided to a one-month-old baby who was brought to the Tripler Army Medical Center’s emergency r[...]

Hawaii Lawsuit Alleges Wrongful Commitment To Psychiatric Hospital For Over Two Years

January 8, 2022

A civil rights lawsuit filed in Hawaii on November 21, 2021 by 50-year-old Joshua Spriestersbach alleges that he was wrongfully committed to a Hawaii mental hospital for two years and eight months in a case of misidentification. Spriestersbach was kept for more than two years at Hawaii State Hospita[...]

Hawaii Court Orders Bristol-Myers And Sanofi To Pay Hawaii $834M Regarding Plavix Warning

March 21, 2021

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 d[...]

Hawaii Supreme Court Recognizes Loss Of Chance Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Death Claims

May 9, 2020

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 case involving the death of a patient may [...]

$24.7M Hawaii Medical Malpractice Verdict By Federal Judge

March 31, 2018

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 at Tripler Army Medical Center in 2013 when she went to th[...]

Hawaii Medical Malpractice Case Settled For Unnecessary Death Of 8-Year-Old

September 27, 2017

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 health center for which the U.S. government was [...]

Hawaii Supreme Court Discusses Informed Consent Requirements In Medical Malpractice Case

September 7, 2016

In its opinion filed on May 3, 2016, the Supreme Court of the State of Hawai’i (“Hawaii Supreme Court”) discussed the requirements for a Hawaii physician to obtain informed consent from a patient for medical treatment, stating that the standard for a physician’s duty to disclos[...]

Hawaii Supreme Court Discusses Expert Medical Evidence In Informed Consent Cases

May 19, 2016

In its opinion filed on May 3, 2016, the Supreme Court of the State of Hawai’i (“Hawaii Supreme Court”) discussed the nature and source of expert medical evidence required to establish a prima facie case of negligent failure to obtain informed consent. Negligent Failure To Obtain [...]

$850,000 Medical Malpractice Settlement For Blindness Following Prostate Surgery

November 5, 2015

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 United States recently agreed to settle the ma[...]

$5.62M Hawaii Medical Malpractice Verdict Against ENT

December 4, 2014

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 of a fist. The man had gone to a local Hawaii hospital in 200[...]

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