All the headlines from our Hawaii Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 4 2018 // Last month’s record rains destroyed or did major damage to 115 homes on Kauai and Oahu islands, the state of Hawaii said Wednesday as it sought a disaster declaration from the president.The cost of emergency work and...
May 2 2018 // Brown & Brown Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire the Servco Pacific Insurance operations in Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest.The transaction is expected to close in June 2018, subject to certain closing...
Apr 23 2018 // Recovery efforts continue to help some Hawaii residents get back on their feet following a devastating flood.About 30 community leaders from Kauai’s North Shore met over the weekend to discuss relief efforts and...
Apr 18 2018 // Heavy rains on Kauai let up this week, which helped emergency workers better rescue people stranded by flooding on the Hawaiian island.By Monday afternoon, emergency crews evacuated 152 people by helicopter, 121 people by...
Apr 9 2018 // Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc. has named Tim Johns as president and CEO of Zephyr Insurance Company Inc. in Hawaii. Johns will succeed President and CEO Richard Toyama. Johns was previously chief consumer officer at the...
Apr 2 2018 // Woodruff-Sawyer has named Tim Matthews Honolulu office as vice president in risk control of its risk solution partners operation. Matthews will work with clients to apply risk management techniques and conduct loss control...
Mar 8 2018 // The Honolulu City Council has approved a $1 million settlement with a woman who sued the city for injuries she sustained when a coconut tree struck her in 2012.Ana Krogh-Doyle was a competitive surfer before being struck...
Mar 8 2018 // A Honolulu nurse has been awarded nearly $4 million after an image of a noose was taped to her locker and a racist note was left in her hospital mailbox.A jury on Wednesday awarded former Queen’s Medical Center nurse...
Feb 26 2018 // A Hawaii tour helicopter was not properly maintained when it crashed into waters near Pearl Harbor two years ago, according to a federal report.The final report from the National Transportation Safety Board indicated that...
Feb 23 2018 // A private school system in Honolulu, Hawaii has agreed to pay $80 million to the victims of a doctor accused of sexually abusing students and other patients for decades.Kamehameha Schools has also agreed to create new...
Feb 13 2018 // Weather junkie John Grosso knew it was highly unlikely a monster wave was barreling toward the Connecticut coast. Still, when a tsunami warning appeared out of the blue on his phone Tuesday, he felt a twinge of fear. His...
Feb 12 2018 // A proposed law in the state legislature would require insurance companies to cover air ambulance rides to the mainland for critical procedures not offered in Hawaii.The measure would take the burden off families that are...
Feb 8 2018 // A tsunami warning was erroneously sent Tuesday to some mobile phones along the East Coast and other coastal locations, less than a month after a false notification of a missile attack in Hawaii was sent by that...
Jan 16 2018 // The second recent blunder in Hawaii’s planning for a possible North Korean nuclear attack left islanders shaken after an emergency alert warning of an imminent strike sounded on hundreds of thousands of...
Dec 18 2017 // John Keane, president of The Keane Insurance Group, founded the Keane Charitable Group in 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti. Since then, The Keane Group has raised more than $1 million to build an orphanage, a well, a...
Dec 18 2017 // A Texas pilot in early December pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud and arson charges, associated with, among other things, intentionally crashing a plane in the Gulf of Mexico and destroying other expensive planes,...
Oct 16 2017 // The board of directors of Hawaii Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company Inc. has declared a $3.5 million dividend payable to qualifying policyholders. This is $500,000 dollars more than HEMIC’s dividend last year,...
Oct 4 2017 // An attorney representing Brigham Young University-Hawaii tells a federal judge the school will pay to settle a former student’s lawsuit alleging her campus job supervisor sexually assaulted and harassed her.Attorney...
Oct 2 2017 // As homeowners file insurance claims in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, many could find their level of protection depends on the state where their damaged home is located, according to a research report released by...
Sep 27 2017 // The board of directors of Hawaii Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company Inc. has declared a $3.5 million dividend payable to qualifying policyholders. This is $500,000 dollars more than HEMIC’s dividend last year,...