Practice Areas - Insurance Coverage
- Appellate Practice
- Commercial Litigation
- Personal Injury
| - Construction Law
- Employment Law
- Trust Litigation
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| Contact Info | Telephone: (808) 531-8031
Fax: (808) 533-2242
http://www.hawaiilawyer.com
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| University | University of the Pacific, B.A., 1973 |
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| Law School | San Francisco Law School, J.D., 1979 |
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| Admitted | 1979, California; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1985, Alaska, U.S. District Court, District of Alaska and U.S. Supreme Court; 1990, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and U.S. District Court, Northern Mariana Islands; 1992, Hawaii; 2001, U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii |
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| Memberships | Alaska Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Indian Law; Employment; inactive); Hawaii State Bar Association (Current Chair, Insurance Coverage Section; Member, Litigation Section); State Bar of California (inactive); Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (inactive); American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Tort Trial and Insurance Practice; Litigation; Insurance Coverage and Litigation Committee; Appellate Practice). |
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| Born | Palo Alto, California |
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| Biography | Recipient: American Jurisprudence Award for Equity/Injunctions and Legal Ethics; Moot Court Award, Best Team Performance. Co-Author: "Insurance Law: Third Party Coverage in Hawaii" (NBI Aug. 2004); "Development of the Tort of Bad Faith" (Lorman Education Services Feb. 2005); "Development of the Tort of Bad Faith" (NBI July 2005); "Emerging Insurance Issues" (Hawaii State Bar Journal Feb. 2007); "2007-2008 Construction Law Update: Case Law and Legislation Affecting the Construction Industry," (ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, Division 10, 2008); "2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Hawaii Legislative and Case Law update for Construction Forum," ABA Section of Litigation; "Top Nine Issues in Insurance Coverage" (Lorman Education Services Nov. 2008); "Bad Faith Insurance Claims" (Sterling Education Services, Inc. Jan. 2009); Getting Around LHWCA's Exclusive Remedy Roadblock - Employee's Claims Against Employer and Insurer for Intentional Torts (Coverage, July/August 2010); American Bar Association Forum on Construction Industry, "The Annotated Construction Law Glossary," 2010. "Of Woodchucks and Prune Yards: A View of Judicial Taking from the Trenches," 35 ut.L. Rev. 437 (2010). Author: "Exclusions Got You Down? Consider Coverage for Ensuing Losses" (coverage - Jan./Feb. 2011); "Pulling for Japan - Insurance Coverage for Natural Disasters" Article (ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee's website); "Breadth of the Flood Exclusion: A Flood is a Flood, Including Storm Surge" (ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Hot Topics Website, June 2009). Blog: www.insurancelawhawaii.com. Lecturer, "Pro Bono Litigation," Federal District Bar Conference, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Feb. 1996). Speaker: "Development of the Tort of Bad Faith" (Lorman Education Services, Feb. 2006); Flood and Hurricane Insurance; Assignment of Policies (Lorman Education Services, Nov. 2009); Bad Faith (Sterling Education Services, Inc., Jan. 2009); ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, Assignment of Policies (March 2009); Triggers of Coverage (March 2010); Ensuing Loss (March 2011); Committee Tasks: Co-Editor, ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Website (2011—); Co-Chair of Additional Insured Sub-Committee of ABA's Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee. Formerly with: Law Offices of Vicente T. Salas; Alaska Legal Services Corp.; Micronesian Legal Services Corp.; Stanton Clay Chapman Crumpton & Iwamura. |
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| Reported Cases | Akootchook v. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 747 F.2d 1316 (9th Cir. 1984), cert. den., 471 U.S. 1115 (1985); Olympic v. United States, 615 F.Supp. 990 (D. Alaska 1985); George v. Hodel, 14 Indian Law Rptr. 3043 (D. Alaska 1987); Kenaitze Indian Tribe v. State of Alaska, 860 F.2d 312 (9th Cir.), cert. den., 491 U.S. 905 (1988); Andrew v. Bowen, 873 F.2d 875 (9th Cir. 1988); Degnan v. Hodel, 16 Indian Law Rptr. 3087 (D. Alaska 1989); In the Matter of C.C.G., 783 P.2d 1159 (Alaska 1989); In Re Estate of Teregeyo, 5 N. Mar. I. 90 (1997); Estate of DeLeon Guerrero v. Quitugua, 6 N. Mar. I. 67 (2000); Mikelson v. United Services Automobile Assoc., 108 Haw. 358 120 P.3d 257 (2005); Oden v. Northern Marianas College, 440 F.3d 1085 (9th Cir.), cert. den. 549 U.S. 819 (2006); Del Monte Fresh Produce (Hawaii), Inc. v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co., 117 Haw. 357, 183 P.3d 734 (2007); Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Fla. Dept. of Environmental Protection, 130 S. Ct. 2592 (2010) (amicus). |
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| ISLN | 907541644 |
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