Insurance Law Hawaii hits twelve years of existence this week, 1347 posts later. We started in December 2007. We continue in order to keep up on developing issues in insurance law. We strive to keep readers abreast of new developments in cases from Hawaii and across the country.
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My partner and blogging colleague [blog here] at Damon Key, Robert Thomas, received a well-deserved appointment this week. Robert will serve as a new member of the American Law Institute and will bring his expertise to ALI. ALI clarifies the law through Restatement, Principles, and Model Codes. Among his many talents, Robert
I was honored to be a panel member at the recent Hawaii State Bar Association convention for the Insurance Coverage Section. I spoke on coverage for flood, volcanoes, and climate change.
Act 070, signed in to law by the governor on June 7, 2019, requires insurers to register any trade name with the Business Registration Division (BREG), Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA), prior to the use or change of a trade name to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance in Hawaii. Upon registration
The Hawaii Insurance Commissioner has issued Memorandum 2019 3R, requiring insurers writing residential hurricane coverage at any time in the last 15 years to submit a data call worksheet, or completed survey, to the Insurance Division. The Commissioner explains the information is requested to capture Hawaii-specific information on residential hurricane coverage through a
Only four insurance-related measures were enacted by the Hawaii Legislature in the recently concluded 2019 session. The legislation is as follows:
HB 273 – This bill establishes an exemption for insurers issuing group policies from the required annual privacy notice to individual customers under certain circumstances. The bill was transmitted to
The dates for this year's ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar in Tucson are February 27 to March 2, 2019. Again this year, the seminar promises to provide cutting edge CLE programming and many networking opportunities. I will be on a panel addressing "Changing Climate, Changing Risks and Policies," with my esteemed
Our Damon Key team argued a bad faith case before the Hawaii Supreme Court today, Adams v. Hawaii Medical Service Association, SCWC-15-0000396.
Pictured below: Joanna Zigler, Rafael del Castillo, Tred Eyerly and Robert Thomas.
Insurance Law Hawaii hit eleven years of blogging last week. We started in December 2007, 1251 posts ago. Blogging has served as a invaluable self-education on multiple coverage issues in an effort to keep abreast of the constantly changing landscape. We hope readers have found the posts to be useful and informative.
Having lived and worked in the Northern Mariana Islands for ten years during the 1990's, I followed the approach of Super Typhoon Yutu and its direct hit on Tinian and southern Saipan with concern. It was barely a week ago that the typhoon arrived. A category 5 storm with winds at 180 miles
