Question 1

What personal injury case types do you cover in Hawaii?

Accepted Answer

Premises liability and slip and fall are our headline Hawaii categories: hotel and resort (Waikiki, Maui west-side resort corridor, Big Island Kohala Coast, Kauai), big-box and grocery (Walmart, Costco, Target, Foodland, Times Supermarket), restaurant, parking lot, apartment complex, condominium common areas, and shopping-center files. We also cover auto / car accident (threshold-aware screening under HRS § 431:10C-306), tourism / Hana Highway crashes, motorcycle, rideshare (Uber and Lyft), pedestrian (Hawaii consistently ranks among highest pedestrian fatality rates in the nation), Hawaii common-law-scienter dog bite (HRS § 663-9 with hybrid framework per Hubbell v. Iseke), wrongful death, hotel/resort negligent security, construction industrial workplace, and product. Most firms buying Hawaii leads from us mix a hotel/resort and slip-and-fall premises base with steady auto and pedestrian volume.

Question 2

How does Hawaii premises liability law work?

Accepted Answer

Pickard v. City and County of Honolulu, 51 Haw. 134, 452 P.2d 445 (1969) is the controlling case. The Hawaii Supreme Court abolished the common-law invitee/licensee/trespasser distinctions and adopted a unitary duty on land occupiers to use reasonable care for the safety of all persons reasonably anticipated to be on the premises. Hawaii joined California (Rowland v. Christian, 1968) as among the earliest jurisdictions in the country to do so. Subsequent Hawaii decisions limit the unitary rule where trespass is unforeseeable; reasonable care is owed to trespassers reasonably anticipated to be present. Hotel/innkeeper duty under Knodle v. Waikiki Gateway Hotel recognizes a special relationship between hotels and guests, supporting affirmative duties to protect against foreseeable third-party criminal acts and unreasonable risks of harm. The unitary standard combined with the no general PI noneconomic cap and uncapped punitive damages produces a relatively plaintiff-friendly premises environment for tourism and hotel/resort files.

Question 3

How much do Hawaii premises liability and slip-and-fall leads cost?

Accepted Answer

Hawaii premises and slip-and-fall lead pricing tracks the Google Ads auction. Personal injury commercial-intent CPCs across Hawaii generally run $50 to $180, with Honolulu (Oahu) at the top end and Maui, Big Island, and Kauai meaningfully lower. Our published Hawaii pricing is $125-$655 per exclusive lead by case type ($360 for car accident (MVA, including motorcycle and pedestrian), $540 for commercial MVA (trucking, rideshare, bus), $655 for wrongful death, $195 for premises liability, and $125+ for workers' compensation), flat and the same for every firm, with no minimums or contracts (see the pricing section above).

Question 4

What is the statute of limitations for Hawaii personal injury claims?

Accepted Answer

Two years from the date of injury under HRS § 657-7 for most personal injury claims, including premises, slip and fall, dog bite, auto, and product. Wrongful death runs on a 2-year clock from the date of death under HRS § 663-3(b). Medical torts 2 years from discovery under HRS § 657-7.3 with a 6-year statute of repose. State Tort Liability Act under HRS chapter 662 governs claims against the State; county claims fall outside chapter 662 and proceed under HRS § 46-72 with a 2-year written-notice requirement specifying when, where, how, the extent, and the amount claimed.

Question 5

How does Hawaii's comparative fault rule affect premises and PI cases?

Accepted Answer

Hawaii applies modified comparative fault under HRS § 663-31 in the "greater than" form. Recovery is barred where plaintiff fault is greater than the negligence of the person, or in the case of more than one person, the aggregate negligence of such persons against whom recovery is sought. Damages are reduced in proportion to plaintiff fault. The same rule governs premises, dog bite, auto, and most negligence claims. Joint and several liability is abolished under HRS § 663-10.9 with carve-outs preserving J&S for economic damages, noneconomic damages against tortfeasors whose individual fault is 25% or more, intentional torts, and certain environmental and motor-vehicle categories.

Question 6

Does Hawaii cap PI noneconomic damages?

Accepted Answer

No statutory cap on general PI noneconomic damages outside the medical-tort context. Caps are confined to medical malpractice. The Hawaii medical malpractice noneconomic cap is $375,000 on pain and suffering under HRS § 663-8.7. The med-mal cap does not apply to general PI. Punitive damages have no statutory cap; the clear-and-convincing standard under Masaki v. General Motors Corp., 71 Haw. 1, 780 P.2d 566 (1989) requires "wanton, oppressive, or malicious" conduct or willful misconduct or "entire want of care" suggesting conscious indifference. Public-entity caps: state liability under HRS chapter 662; county liability under HRS § 46-72 with the 2-year written-notice requirement.

Question 7

Do you handle Hawaii hotel and resort negligent-security and tourism files?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Hawaii's tourism economy concentrates premises-injury claim volume on Oahu south-shore resort properties (Waikiki), Maui west-side (Wailea, Kaanapali, Lahaina), Big Island Kohala Coast, and Kauai. Hotel/innkeeper duty under Knodle v. Waikiki Gateway Hotel supports affirmative duties to protect against foreseeable third-party criminal acts. Hana Highway (HI-360 / HI-36) on Maui (64 miles, 617 turns, 59 bridges, many single-lane) is routinely listed among the most dangerous tourist roads in the world; tourist MVA and pedestrian files on the Hana corridor generate concentrated catastrophic-injury outcomes. We screen tourism files for resort-property security audits, prior-incident discovery, and contractor/staffing-agency co-tortfeasor analysis at intake.

Question 8

How does the Pickard v. City and County of Honolulu unitary premises duty change the calculus on Hawaii files?

Accepted Answer

Pickard v. City and County of Honolulu, 51 Haw. 134 (1969) abolished the common-law invitee/licensee/trespasser distinctions. Property owners no longer get the lower licensee duty when a social guest, business invitee, or tourist is on the property; all reasonably anticipated entrants are owed reasonable care under the circumstances. Hawaii joined California (Rowland, 1968) as among the earliest jurisdictions to unify the duty. The unitary standard meaningfully expands premises liability versus the tripartite-framework majority of states. Combined with no statutory cap on general PI noneconomic damages, no statutory cap on punitive damages (Masaki clear-and-convincing standard), and Hawaii's tourism-economy density (hotels, resorts, beaches, hiking trails), the framework produces a plaintiff-friendly premises environment shaped heavily by tourism and resort liability.

Question 9

Are your Hawaii leads pre-screened against the 2-year SOL and the no-fault tort threshold (auto only)?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every Hawaii lead is screened for SOL position under HRS § 657-7, representation status, injury, and comparative-fault sanity check under § 663-31. Premises files include surface-condition context and prior-incident flagging for hotel/resort properties. Auto files are threshold-screened against the HRS § 431:10C-306 no-fault tort threshold ($5,000 PIP-incurred medical OR death, significant permanent loss of bodily function, or permanent serious disfigurement); minor-injury MVA cases that fail the threshold are filtered out at intake. State Tort Liability Act and county claims are flagged for the chapter 662 / § 46-72 procedural regime.

Question 10

Any contracts, minimums, or setup fees?

Accepted Answer

None. No monthly minimums, no subscriptions, no setup fees for standard onboarding. Pay per lead. Pause or resume anytime. Invalid leads are replaced under our standard policy.

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