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About Bert Sakuda
Bert S. Sakuda joined the firm in 1979 and is one of its senior lawyers. He has held the highest rating for legal ability from other lawyers and judges in Hawaii since 1994. Bert grew up in Kapahulu near Waikiki, earned his bachelor's degree at UH Manoa (1975) and his J.D. at the William S. Richardson School of Law (1979), and is a lifelong local resident. He has represented residents, visitors, and military personnel who were seriously injured or killed for over 45 years.
His commitment to personal injury law is shaped in part by personal experience: when he was a child, his father was rendered a quadriplegic by a spinal cord injury sustained during surgery, and his family lived without recourse. That experience drives him to help injured clients and surviving families obtain the financial recovery they need. He has helped recover hundreds of millions of dollars for clients and has been voted Lawyer of the Year 13 times by Hawaii lawyers and judges in personal injury, product liability, mass torts, and insurance law, as recognized in Best Lawyers in America and Honolulu Magazine. He has spoken at more than 65 legal education seminars and has been an active participant in Hawaii's legislative process protecting the rights of injured people since 1986.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks
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After a Chevron-USA tank-farm explosion at Honolulu Harbor burned two Shell Oil employees who later died of their injuries, a Hawaii Circuit Court jury awarded their families a combined $27.7 million in January 1983, then the largest civil verdict in state history.
A federal bench trial awarded $24.7 million to a Navy family after Tripler Army Medical Center physicians failed to administer IV antibiotics for roughly 48 hours following a post-delivery infection, leaving the patient with permanent kidney failure.
A federal judge awarded $16.5 million to the family of a newborn who suffered permanent brain damage after an Army pediatrician at Tripler Army Medical Center administered carbon dioxide instead of oxygen for 42 minutes following his birth. It was the largest single personal-injury judgment for an individual in Hawaii history at the time.
The City and County of Honolulu agreed in October 2021 to pay $10 million to settle a wrongful-death claim brought by the family of cardiothoracic anesthesiologist William Travis Lau, who was struck and killed on a Kakaako sidewalk when a drunk driver fleeing an HPD high-speed pursuit veered off Ala Moana Boulevard in January 2019.
In August 2007, U.S. District Judge David Ezra found Tripler Army Medical Center negligent in monitoring a hospitalized infant whose breathing failed in May 2004, leaving him with severe, permanent brain damage. After a nonjury trial under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the court entered judgment of more than $9.4 million for the boy and his parents. Attorney L. Richard Fried, Jr. represented the family.
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