Our Insurance Coverage & Defense Group has extensive experience in representing both insured and insurers in matters ranging from medical, legal, and architectural errors and omissions to construction, product liability, aviation and maritime torts, and other personal injury matters, and coverage and bad faith matters.
What We Do
- Directors and Officers Liability
- Coverage Analysis and Litigation
- Insurance Bad Faith
- Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, and Other Professional Malpractice
- Medical Malpractice
- Personal Injury Defense
- Products Liability Defense
We regularly represent a wide variety of clients, such as domestic and foreign insurers and corporations, including several Fortune 500 companies.
The representation of these clients takes place in both state and federal courts, not only in Hawai‘i, but throughout the United States Mainland and occasionally in other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Members of the group represent these clients not only in court proceedings, but before administrative agencies, as well as other alternative dispute forums.
The team has received state, national, and international recognition including listings in the Best Lawyers in America® and the Chambers and Partners USA Guide.
Attorneys
Trisha H.S.T. Akagi
Partner
Calvert G. Chipchase
Partner
Jarrett A. Dempsey
Associate
John P. Duchemin
Partner
Christopher T. Goodin
Partner
Kelly G. LaPorte
Partner
Patricia J. McHenry
Senior Counsel
Dave K.K. Miyamoto
Associate
Allison Mizuo Lee
Partner
Kirk M. Neste
Partner
Trisha L. Nishimoto
Partner
Peter W. Olson
Senior Counsel
Jeffrey S. Portnoy
Partner
Paul M. Saito
Partner
Kristin S. Shigemura
Partner
Lisa K. Swartzfager
Partner
Roy A. Vitousek III
Partner
Milton M. Yasunaga
Senior Counsel
Theodore D.C. Young
Partner
Troy Young
Associate