Hawaii Accidents

A crash with a city-owned truck on H-1 near Pearl City is not a normal insurance claim, and a criminal charge against the driver does not pause the civil fight over your injuries or your mental health.

A Honolulu fog pileup with a city bus can turn into a fight over medical care and policy limits fast, especially when the adjuster is lowballing you.

A Hilo social worker can end up with workers' comp, PIP, and a claim against the left-turn driver all at once, and the insurers will spend months arguing over who pays first.

A first crash is bad enough, and it gets worse fast when the insurer sends a private investigator to catch you moving around and call you a liar.

You were working, a passenger was in the car, the at-fault driver borrowed the vehicle, and now you're stuck figuring out Hawaii no-fault, rideshare coverage, and the VA at the same time.

A Waipahu rideshare driver on SSDI after a rear-end crash usually does not lose SSDI because of a settlement, but the hospital lien can gut the payout unless it gets challenged and reduced.

A city truck claim in Kaneohe does not work like a regular hit-and-run, and the fight usually starts with treatment, paperwork, and whether your symptoms showed up right away.

A Hilo salon worker got hit head-on in a parking garage, and the ugly fight is whether the driver's employer can dodge the claim by saying he was off duty.

A Kaneohe bus driver can still have a real injury claim when the insurance doctor pretends the MRI means nothing.

A Honolulu construction worker on a bike got hit by a car leaving a parking lot, and now the borrowed-car insurance mess is being used to keep the payout low.

A Honolulu cyclist hit by a city-owned truck may not have the clock start the same way they think if the serious injury was discovered later, but city claims bring a whole extra layer of hassle fast.

A head injury after a bus crash can look minor at first, but what you do in the next few hours in Hawaii can decide both your recovery and your claim.