All the headlines from our Hawaii Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 22 2013 // Ala Moana Center had a duty to care for a woman who died after getting stuck in an exhaust duct, even though she was trespassing on the roof, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled.But the opinion also affirms parts of a lower...
Jul 17 2013 // Bags of pistachios made by a Hilo company are being recalled for possible salmonella contamination.Hawaii News Now reported the Food and Drug Administration says batches of Hilo Products Roasted & Salted Natural...
Jun 17 2013 // Oregon Insurance Commissioner Lou Savage is leaving the Insurance Division to work on legal reform in emerging democracies overseas after nearly two years at the post.Laura Cali, the division’s chief actuary and...
May 30 2013 // Swett & Crawford’s property/casualty underwriting department has added Wilma LaVoie in the firm’s Honolulu, Hawaii office as senior underwriter. LaVoie has 15 years of underwriting experience. She joins the...
May 28 2013 // A woman is suing the Salvation Army, claiming the organization moved a minister from Oahu to Maui after she reported he sexually abused her in the 1950s. Nancy Spencer’s lawsuit filed on Maui this week claims she was...
May 23 2013 // A national nonprofit is cheering Hawaii’s new law that prohibits people from holding cellphones and other portable electronics while driving.Jonathan Adkins from the Governors Highway Safety Association in Washington...
Apr 24 2013 // A $5.75 million settlement has been approved in a class-action lawsuit alleging bullying, assault and rape at the Hawaii School for the Deaf and the Blind.A federal judge in Honolulu approved the settlement Monday. The...
Apr 3 2013 // Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie named April 2013 Tsunami Awareness Month.Abercrombie held a ceremony at the state Capitol on Monday to sign the proclamation. Several agencies participated in the ceremony, including the Hawaii...
Mar 29 2013 // A 28-year-old Manoa woman has filed a lawsuit against a Honolulu naturopathic doctor she says acted negligently and caused her son to suffer permanent brain injury.The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Margaret Drake filed...
Mar 13 2013 // Roughly 21,000 people in Hawaii who were previously covered under Medicaid will need to buy their own health insurance once President Barack Obama’s sweeping federal health care overhaul takes effect next year, the...
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Mar 4 2013 // Honolulu and the operator of the city’s only landfill have agreed to make changes that will reduce the risk of a fire breaking out at the Waianae coast site, as part of a settlement with the U.S. Environmental...
Mar 1 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘B+’ (Good) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “bbb-” of American General Property Insurance Company (AGPIC), based in Nashville,...
Feb 27 2013 // The family of a man shot to death by Kauai police a year ago in Hawaii has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the department, Kauai County and the officer involved in the shooting.The suit was filed by the family of...
Feb 6 2013 // The state of Hawaii has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a sex assault lawsuit at the Hawaii Center for the Deaf and the Blind. Hawaii News Now reported the settlement means the Kapahulu school will remain open. Attorney...
Jan 25 2013 // A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in the case of a Hawaii man who died while being restrained by police.The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Michele Y.M.H. Torres, the wife of 37-year-old Aaron Torres, is suing the...
Dec 6 2012 // The state Department of Land and Natural Resources says a boat recovered from Kahana Bay on Oahu’s windward coast may be tsunami debris that arrived in Hawaii from Japan. The department said Tuesday staff collected...
Oct 29 2012 // Officials in Hawaii reopened the state’s ports on Sunday and canceled a tsunami advisory as fears receded that there would be damaging waves from a powerful earthquake off the coast of Canada.The Pacific Tsunami...
Oct 24 2012 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a Hawaii company is recalling more than 4,000 pounds of ground beef products distributed to Oahu restaurants because the products may be contaminated with E. coli.The...
Oct 22 2012 // Hurricane Risk in the Central Pacific BasinTwenty years ago, the most powerful storm to strike the Hawaiian Islands in recorded history made landfall on the island of Kauai on Sept. 11, 1992. With sustained winds of 140...