Tort Actions

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  2. Hawaii Revised Statutes
  3. Civil Remedies and Defenses and Special Proceedings
  4. Tort Actions

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Section
663-1

Torts, who may sue and for what.

Section
663-1.2

Tort liability for breach of contract; punitive damages.

Section
663-1.3

"Ad damnum" clause prohibited.

Section
663-1.4

Payment of reasonable attorney's fees and costs in defense of suit.

Section
663-1.5

Exception to liability.

Section
663-1.6

Duty to assist.

Section
663-1.7

Professional society; peer review committee; ethics committee; hospital or clinic quality assurance committee; no liability; exceptions.

Section
663-1.8

Chiropractic society; peer review committee; no liability; exceptions.

Section
663-1.9

Exception to liability for health care provider, authorized person withdrawing blood or urine at the direction of a police officer.

Section
663-1.52

REPEALED.

Section
663-1.53

Liability for operation of a family child care home.

Section
663-1.54

Recreational activity liability.

Section
663-1.55

Volunteer firefighters; limited liability.

Section
663-1.56

Conclusive presumptions relating to duty of public entities to warn of dangers at public beach parks.

Section
663-1.57

Owner to felon; limited liability. owner

Section
663-1.95

Employers' job reference immunity.

Section
663-2

Defense of lawful detention.

Section
663-3

Death by wrongful act.

Section
663-4

Actions which survive death of wrongdoer or other person liable.

Section
663-5

Death of defendant, continuance of action.

Section
663-6

Death of wrongdoer or other person liable prior to suit, time for commencing action against the estate.

Section
663-7

Survival of cause of action.

Section
663-8

Damages, future earnings.

Section
663-8.3

Loss or impairment of earning capacity; damages.

Section
663-8.5

Noneconomic damages; defined.

Section
663-8.7

Limitation on pain and suffering.

Section
663-8.9

Serious emotional distress arising from property damage; cause of action abolished; exception for physical injury.

Section
663-9

Liability of animal owners.

Section
663-9.1

Exception of animal owners to civil liability.

Section
663-9.5

Liability of firearm owners.

Section
663-10

Collateral sources; protection for liens and rights of subrogation.

Section
663-10.5

Government entity as a tortfeasor; abolition of joint and several liability.

Section
663-10.6

Exemption for providing shelter and subsistence to the needy.

Section
663-10.7

Exemption for providing emergency access to land, shelter, and subsistence during a disaster.

Section
663-10.9

Abolition of joint and several liability; exceptions.

Section
663-10.95

Motorsports facilities; waiver of liability.

Section
663-10.98

Design professional liability; highways.

Section
663-10.99

Trespass; limited liability of agricultural land owner.

Section
663-11

Joint tortfeasors defined.

Section
663-12

Right of contribution; accrual; pro rata share.

Section
663-13

Judgment against one tortfeasor.

Sections
663-14 and 663-15

REPEALED.

Section
663-15.5

Release; joint tortfeasors; co-obligors; good faith settlement.

Section
663-16

Indemnity.

Section
663-17

Third-party practice; enforcement of right to contribution; unnamed defendants and third-party defendants.

Section
663-21

Advance payments not admission.

Section
663-22

Reduction of award.

Section
663-23

Refund of payments.

Section
663-24

Effect on insurance.

Section
663-31

Contributory negligence no bar; comparative negligence; findings of fact and special verdicts.

Section
663-41

Right of action.

Section
663-42

Subrogation claims denied.

Section
663-51

Definitions.

Section
663-52

Conclusive presumptions relating to duty of public entities to warn of dangers on improved public lands.