Hudson v. Uwekoolani’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “(A) All appropriate and reasonable expenses necessarily incurred for medical, hospital, surgical, professional nursing, dental, optometric, ambulance, prosthetic services, products and accommodations furnished, x-ray and may include any non-medical remedial care and treatment rendered in accordance with the teachings, faith or belief of any group which depends for healing upon spiritual means through prayer; (B) All appropriate and reasonable expenses necessarily incurred for psychiatric, physical, and occupational therapy and rehabilitation; (C) Monthly earnings loss measured by an amount equal to the lesser of: (i) $800 per month, or (ii) The monthly earnings for the period during which the accidental harm results in the inability to engage in available and appropriate gainful activity. (D) All appropriate and reasonable expenses necessarily incurred as a result of such accidental harm, including, but not limited to, (i) expenses incurred in obtaining services in substitution of those that the injured or deceased person would have performed not for income but for the benefit of himself or his family up to $800 per month, (ii) funeral expenses not to exceed $1,500, and (iii) attorney’s fees and costs to the extent provided in section 294-30(a);”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mizoguchi v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

2. “[A]ll wage loss would be paid until such time as the injured person could resume available and appropriate gainful activity, up to the standard or maximum limit of every no-fault policy .... Benefits would also be paid for loss of future anticipated earnings or for impairment of earning capacity resulting from injuries sustained in an automobile accident, up to the standard or maximum limit of every no-fault policy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mizoguchi v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

3. “'[n]o-fault benefits' with respect to any accidental harm shall be subject to an aggregate limit of $15,000 per person or his survivor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Yamaguchi v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance