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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[...]

$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 Inmate Medical Malpractice Verdict Upheld

January 9, 2014

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 qualified immunity. The Appellate Court h[...]

Hawaii Medical Malpractice Claim Against Midwife

April 12, 2013

When a 28-year-old woman in Hawaii became pregnant in 2010, she hired a midwife to help with the delivery of her baby because she wanted to give birth naturally and the midwife’s website seemed to provide the information and experience that the pregnant woman wanted for her and her baby. The m[...]

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