CHAPTER 663

TORT ACTIONS

 

        Part I.  Liability; Survival of Actions

Section

     663-1 Torts, who may sue and for what

   663-1.2 Tort liability for breach of contract; punitive

           damages

   663-1.3 "Ad damnum" clause prohibited

   663-1.4 Payment of reasonable attorney's fees and costs in

           defense of suit

   663-1.5 Exception to liability

  663-1.52 Repealed

  663-1.53 Liability for operation of a family child care home

  663-1.54 Recreational activity liability

  663-1.55 Volunteer firefighters; limited liability

  663-1.56 Conclusive presumptions relating to duty of public

           entities to warn of dangers at public beach parks

  663‑1.57 Owner to felon; limited liability

   663-1.6 Duty to assist

   663-1.7 Professional society; peer review committee; ethics

           committee; hospital or clinic quality assurance

           committee; no liability; exceptions

   663-1.8 Chiropractic society; peer review committee; no

           liability; exceptions

   663-1.9 Exception to liability for health care provider,

           authorized person withdrawing blood or urine at the

           direction of a police officer

  663-1.95 Employers' job reference immunity

     663-2 Defense of lawful detention

     663-3 Death by wrongful act

     663-4 Actions which survive death of wrongdoer or other

           person liable

     663-5 Death of defendant, continuance of action

     663-6 Death of wrongdoer or other person liable prior to

           suit, time for commencing action against the estate

     663-7 Survival of cause of action

     663-8 Damages, future earnings

   663-8.3 Loss or impairment of earning capacity; damages

   663-8.5 Noneconomic damages; defined

   663-8.7 Limitation on pain and suffering

   663-8.9 Serious emotional distress arising from property

           damage; cause of action abolished; exception for

           physical injury

     663-9 Liability of animal owners

   663-9.1 Exception of animal owners to civil liability

   663-9.5 Liability of firearm owners

    663-10 Collateral sources; protection for liens and rights

           of subrogation

  663-10.5 Government entity as a tortfeasor; abolition of

           joint and several liability

  663-10.6 Exemption for providing shelter and subsistence to

           the needy

  663-10.7 Exemption for providing emergency access to land,

           shelter, and subsistence during a disaster

  663-10.9 Abolition of joint and several liability; exceptions

 663-10.95 Motorsports facilities; waiver of liability

 663-10.98 Design professional liability; highways

 663-10.99 Trespass; limited liability of agricultural land

           Owner

 

         Part II.  Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act

    663-11 Joint tortfeasors defined

    663-12 Right of contribution; accrual; pro rata share

    663-13 Judgment against one tortfeasor

   663-14, 15 Repealed

  663-15.5 Release; joint tortfeasors; co-obligors; good faith

           settlement

    663-16 Indemnity

    663-17 Third-party practice; enforcement of right to

           contribution; unnamed defendants and third-party

           defendants

 

        Part III.  Advance Payments in Personal Injury and

                   Property Damage Cases

    663-21 Advance payments not admission

    663-22 Reduction of award

    663-23 Refund of payments

    663-24 Effect on insurance

 

        Part IV.  Comparative Negligence

    663-31 Contributory negligence no bar; comparative

           negligence; findings of fact and special verdicts

 

        Part V.  Civil Action; Intoxication of Persons

                 Under Age Twenty-One

    663-41 Right of action

    663-42 Subrogation claims denied

 

        Part VI.  Limitations on Public Entity Liability in

                  Actions Based Upon Duty to Warn of Natural

                  Conditions

    663-51 Definitions

    663-52 Conclusive presumptions relating to duty of public

           entities to warn of dangers on improved public lands

 

Note

 

  As to procedural statutes superseded by the rules of court, see note preceding Title 32.

 

Cross References

 

  Emergency use of private real property, see chapter 135.

 

Law Journals and Reviews

 

  Products Liability in Hawaii.  14 HBJ, no. 4, at 127 (1979).

  The Negligent Infliction of Mental Distress II, or "How Far Is Too Far?".  14 HBJ, no. 4, at 151 (1979).

  Hawaii's Loss of Consortium Doctrine:  Our Substantive, Relational Interest Focus.  VII HBJ, no. 13, at 59 (2003).

  Settling Civil Lawsuits in the Hawaii Circuit Courts.  10 HBJ, no. 13, at 1 (2007).

  Managing a Complex Construction Defect Case.  10 HBJ, no. 13, at 133 (2007).

  Tort Case Summaries.  13 HBJ, no. 13, at 1 (2009).

  The Hawai`i Law on Legal Malpractice and Liability to Non-Clients.  13 HBJ, no. 13, at 41 (2009).

  Is it the Deep Six for "Deepening Insolvency?"  13 HBJ, no. 13, at 155 (2009).

  Pitfalls in the Collaboration of Attorneys and Expert Witnesses.  13 HBJ, no. 13, at 173 (2009).

  Summaries of Hawai`i Tort Cases (2011).  15 HBJ, no. 13, at 111 (2013).

  The Wavering Line Between Medical Malpractice and Ordinary Negligence in Elder Abuse Litigation.  18 HBJ, no. 13, at 81 (2015).

  The Scope of Liability for Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress:  Making "the Punishment Fit the Crime".  1 UH L. Rev. 1 (1979).

  Torts and Workers' Compensation.  2 UH L. Rev. 209 (1979).

  Tort and Insurance "Reform" in a Common Law Court.  14 UH L. Rev. 55 (1992).

  Beyond Compensation:  Dealing with Accidents in the 21st Century.  (International Workshop).  15 UH L. Rev. 523 (1993).

  AIDS Phobia:  The Infliction of Emotional Distress and the Fear of AIDS.  16 UH L. Rev. 143 (1994).

  United States v. Burke and Internal Revenue Code Section 104(a)(2):  When Will Personal Injury Damages Be Taxed?  16 UH L. Rev. 263 (1994).

  Recreational Activity Liability in Hawai`i:  Are Waivers Worth the Paper on Which They Are Written?  21 UH L. Rev. 715 (1999).

  Hawai`i's Response to Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation and the Protection of Citizens' Right to Petition the Government.  24 UH L. Rev. 411 (2001).

  Child Pornography on the Internet:  The Effect of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 on Tort Recovery for Victims Against Internet Service Providers.  24 UH L. Rev. 763 (2002).

  Fido Seeks Full Membership In The Family:  Dismantling The Property Classification of Companion Animals By Statute.  25 UH L. Rev. 481 (2003).

  Scientific Expert Admissibility in Mold Exposure Litigation:  Establishing Reliability of Methodologies in Light of Hawai`i's Evidentiary Standard.  26 UH L. Rev. 99 (2003).

  Don't Smile, Your Image Has Just Been Recorded on a Camera-Phone:  The Need For Privacy in the Public Sphere.  27 UH L. Rev. 377 (2005).

  Global Warming:  Attorneys General Declare Public Nuisance.  27 UH L. Rev. 525 (2005).

  Extending Loss of Consortium to Reciprocal Beneficiaries:  Breaking the Illogical Boundary Between Severe Injury and Death in Hawai`i Tort Law.  28 UH L. Rev. 429 (2006).

  Hawai`i's Workers' Compensation Scheme:  An Employer's License to Kill?  29 UH L. Rev. 211 (2006).

  Medical Malpractice in Hawai`i:  Tort Crisis or Crisis of Medical Errors?  30 UH L. Rev. 167 (2007).

  From Anti-Injunction to Radical Reform:  Proposing a Unifying Approach to Class-Action Adjudication.  31 UH L. Rev. 155 (2008).

  Electronic Discovery:  A Call for a New Rules Regime for the Hawai`i Courts.  32 UH L. Rev. 153 (2009).

  Plausibility of Notice Pleading:  Hawaii's Pleading Standards in the Wake of Ashcroft v. Iqbal.  32 UH L. Rev. 485 (2010).

  Kanahele v. Han:  Economic Sufferings Legally Implies Non-Economic Sufferings.  34 UH L. Rev. 611 (2012).

  State Search and Seizure:  The Original Meaning.  38 UH L. Rev. 63 (2016).

  Agricultural "Market Touching":  Modernizing Trespass to Chattels in Crop Contamination Cases.  38 UH L. Rev. 409 (2016).

  Regulating Ridesharing Platforms Through Tort Law.  39 UH L. Rev. 357 (2017).

 

Case Notes

 

  County fulfilled its duty of providing adequate warning of extremely dangerous shorebreak present at beach park on date of accident.  122 F. Supp. 2d 1140 (2000).

  Plaintiff's claims of neglect, abuse, and failure to provide a safe home against care home defendants did not constitute "medical torts" within the meaning of §671-1; thus, plaintiff was not required to submit plaintiff's claims to a medical claims conciliation panel (MCCP) pursuant to §§671-12 and 671-16 as a condition for plaintiff to file suit against defendants, and the circuit court erred in dismissing plaintiff's suit based on plaintiff's failure to submit plaintiff's claims to a MCCP.  128 H. 405 (App.), 289 P.3d 1041 (2012).