Insurance,
Civil Litigation
Aug. 21, 2024
Hawaii law makes insurers wait for Maui fire victims to be paid, attorneys say
Making insurers wait for victims to be paid in mass torts could be tried elsewhere, plaintiffs' attorneys in the Maui fire litigation said after Hawaii law was used by a judge who stated just that principle.
A unique Hawaii statutory procedure helped plaintiffs' attorneys in the Maui wildfire litigation stop insurance companies from being reimbursed for their payments to policyholders until all the victims had been made whole, as much as possible, from the limited $4.02 billion settlement.
After the plaintiffs filed their lawsuits in the 2nd Circuit Court of Hawaii, 100 insurance companies sued the same defendants, but in the 1st Circuit Court, explained Frank Pitre of Cotchett, P...
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