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Honolulu city truck turned right into my bike and now they're saying I waited too long

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.

ARTICLE by Grace Santos

guardian ad litem

A guardian ad litem is a person appointed by a court to represent the best interests of a child or an incapacitated person during a specific legal case. Unlike a general...

community property state

Miss this label in a divorce or death case, and a spouse can be pushed into signing away money, a home, retirement funds, or debt without realizing what rules actually apply. A...

strict product liability

Do you have to prove a company was careless to recover for a dangerous product? Not always. Strict product liability allows an injured person to hold a manufacturer,...

postnuptial agreement

A written contract spouses sign after marriage to set rules about money, property, and debt. "Written" matters because informal promises usually do not hold up when a marriage...

legal separation

Failing to understand this can leave someone thinking they are basically divorced when they are not - and that mistake can affect money, property, insurance, and even who has...

business records exception

$25,000 in medical bills can become much harder to prove if the records that support them are kept out of evidence. A common worst-case problem is assuming hospital charts,...

termination of parental rights

Insurance companies or defense lawyers may bring up this phrase to argue that an injured person no longer has a legal parent-child relationship and therefore should not claim...

physical custody vs legal custody

Physical custody is about where a child lives and who handles day-to-day care, while legal custody is about who has authority to make major decisions for the child, such as...

Hawaii Crash Claims Involving Preexisting Mental Health Conditions

In Hawaii, an insurer does not get to erase serious post-crash mental health harm just by pointing to old anxiety or depression, but they will absolutely try.

ARTICLE by Grace Santos

My Honolulu crash is almost two years old and Medicare wants a cut

Two impacts, two insurers, Medicare in the middle, and the deadline can sneak up fast if you moved here recently and don't know the system.

ARTICLE by Derek Kahunahana

domestic violence protective order

Missing what this means can leave someone dangerously exposed: unwanted contact may continue, the police may have less to enforce right away, and a family court case can get...

Like a road map for two households, a parenting plan lays out how parents will share the work of raising a child after separation or divorce. It usually covers where the child...

Miss this distinction, and someone can walk into court expecting a divorce order when what they may need - or be facing - is a ruling that the marriage was never legally valid...

stepparent adoption

Can a stepparent become a child's legal parent? Yes. Stepparent adoption is the court process that lets a married person adopt their spouse's child and take on the full legal...

Hilo postal route wrecked by construction gravel and now they're pushing light duty anyway

A Hilo postal worker can have a work injury claim and a separate fault case over road debris, and the biggest fights are usually over blame and forced "light duty."

ARTICLE by Marcus Torres

Honolulu bus pileup in fog and the insurance number sounds way too low

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.

ARTICLE by Grace Santos

general causation

Proof that something can cause a kind of harm. "Can" is the key word. General causation asks whether a product, substance, or condition is capable of causing the injury at...

I found out the filing clock may be almost up after that Waipahu fog pileup

A night-shift security guard in Waipahu can still have multiple sources of money after a fog pileup, but the two-year lawsuit deadline and the empty-LLC problem can wreck the case fast.

ARTICLE by Keoni Makoa

Could a Waipahu crash settlement wipe out the SSDI check you live on?

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.

ARTICLE by Marcus Torres