All the headlines from our Hawaii Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 28 2020 // Hawaii lawmakers have proposed initiatives to help reduce the number of traffic-related fatalities after transportation officials confirmed more than 100 deaths in the last year.Those initiatives include installing traffic...
Jan 24 2020 // The family of a 5-year-old boy who died on a kayaking excursion filed a lawsuit against the school that conducted the trip.The family of Alaric Chiu filed the lawsuit last week against Mid-Pacific Institute citing reckless...
Jan 2 2020 // California wildfires dominated the news in Insurance Journal’s Western region in 2019, despite it being a quiet year relative to two consecutive years of deadly blazes that came before.Three of the year’s top...
Dec 31 2019 // Tour helicopter operations in Hawaii are under increased scrutiny after a deadly crash this week, one of several recent accidents in the state, with a congressman calling the trips unsafe and lacking proper oversight.A...
Nov 18 2019 // Plaintiffs and defendants reached a settlement over a deadly Honolulu high-rise fire, although the amounts to be paid by insurance companies remains confidential, attorneys said.A settlement conference concluded in early...
Nov 8 2019 // Plaintiffs and defendants reached a settlement over a deadly Honolulu high-rise fire, although the amounts to be paid by insurance companies remains confidential, attorneys said.A settlement conference concluded Tuesday...
Sep 16 2019 // “We have a lot more work that we need to get done. Despite Florida’s history of hurricanes, people are slow to make changes to improve their situation.”Lisa Lindsay, president of the Private Risk...
Sep 12 2019 // The board of Hawai`i Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company Inc. has declared a $3.5 million dividend payable to qualifying policyholders.HEMIC says that with this dividend it will have returned over $38 million dollars...
Sep 9 2019 // Honolulu, Hawaii-based Island Insurance Company, Ltd. has named Tyler Tokioka chairman of the board. He succeeds Colbert Matsumoto, who will remain a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Tokioka first joined...
Sep 4 2019 // Employers Inc. is now offering workers’ compensation insurance policies in Hawaii. The expansion has Employers providing workers’ comp to small businesses nationally, excluding four monopolistic...
Sep 4 2019 // Hawaii County has agreed to pay a $15.1 million settlement to the family of a Michigan man who was struck and killed by a police patrol car.The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported that 63-year-old Jeffrey Surnow was riding a...
Aug 28 2019 // More than half of hemp crops cultivated in Hawaii in the past year were unusable due to high THC levels, officials said.The crops cultivated for the state’s hemp industry tested above the federal limit for the...
Aug 9 2019 // Empire Underwriters, an MGA, surplus lines broker and wholesaler in business insurance underwriting and services, has launched new programs available in the State of Hawaii.The new programs include its Main Street Workers...
Aug 2 2019 // Hawaii coffee farmers have filed a lawsuit against major retailers after scientific tests confirm Kona coffee is mislabeled as authentic.West Hawaii Today reported Tuesday that three Kona coffee farmers say a coffee...
Jul 29 2019 // Tropical Storm Erich has formed in the Pacific far off the western coast of Mexico and is predicted to become a hurricane by Monday night as it moves over open waters on a path that could take it near the Hawaiian Islands...
Jul 16 2019 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. will cut its rates in Hawaii for the third time in two years, the company announced. As a result, its overall personal auto rate will drop by 2.6 percent. The total state-wide...
Jul 11 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board says two skydivers made a last-minute decision to board the Hawaii plane that crashed and killed 11 people last month.The NTSB’s preliminary report gave no cause for the...
Jul 9 2019 // Officials have raised the alert level for the world’s largest active volcano, Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, which last erupted in 1984.The U.S. Geological Survey changed the level from “normal” to...
Jul 2 2019 // Hawaii will soon provide drivers the option to select “X” as their gender on licenses.Democratic Gov. David Ige was expected to sign the bill aimed at reducing discrimination against transgender and gender...
Jun 25 2019 // Federal investigators will review repair and inspection records on the skydiving plane that became inverted before crashing shortly after takeoff on Oahu’s North Shore, killing all 11 people on board in the deadliest...