Brende v. Hara - Hawaii Supreme Court Case No. 27964 (November 26, 2006) is a landmark decision under Hawaii law protecting the privacy of litigants who must reveal their medical history in order to pursue claims against wrongdoers in court. In Brende, the Hawaii Supreme Court put the individual citizen's interest in protecting the confidentiality of their medical records ahead of the "big business" interests of giant insurance companies in warehousing medical records to use that information whenever and however they might see fit. The court found that a personal injury plaintiff in Hawaii is generally entitled to a Protective Order by the trial court requiring that none of the plaintiff's protected health information obtained from any source in a civil action shall be disclosed or used for any purpose outside of the civil action without the plaintiff's explicit written consent.
Being a passenger in a car driven by a bad driver can be fatal. Honolulu's 22nd fatal car accident of 2025 involved a passenger who was ejected after the driver of their car lost control and crashed into a fence first and then into a guardrail on Kam Highway in the Mililani area. The passenger was ejected and killed. See, Fatal Car Accident in Mililani, Hawaii on April 12, 2025
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