Case Notes

JurisdictionHawaii,United States
CitationVol. 19 No. 05
Publication year2015
Year2015

CASE NOTES

Appeal Pointers

A circuit court order granting summary judgment or dismissing claims is not appealable unless it is reduced to a separate judgment. HRGP 58; Jenkins v. Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright, 76 Haw. 115, 869 P2d 1334 (1994).

Supreme Court

Insurance

Ito v. Investors Life Equity Holding Co., SGAP-10-0000131, February 27, 2015, (Nakayama, J.; Pollack, J. dissenting). Investors Equity Life Holding Company (IELHC) was the former parent company and sole shareholder of Investors Equity Life Insurance Company of Hawaii, Ltd. (IEL). In 1994 IEL was liquidated, thus creating the IEL estate. The State of Hawaii Insurance Commissioner (Commissioner) was appointed as IEL's liquidator (Liquidator). This case concerned the Liquidator's denial of IELHC's purported claim to all remaining assets of the IEL estate. In its opening brief, IELHC raised five points of error : (1) "The...

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