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About Davis Levin Livingston

Davis Levin Livingston is a Honolulu-based plaintiffs trial firm with more than 50 years of practice on all the Hawaiian islands and the mainland. The firm focuses on personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, and birth injury cases, and has secured hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements, including the largest single compensatory personal injury judgment in Hawaii history.

Proven verdicts and settlements won by Davis Levin Livingston

$80 millionSettlement

Thirty-two male survivors of a school-contracted psychiatrist who abused students across more than two decades reached an $80 million settlement with Kamehameha Schools, described at the time as the largest personal-injury settlement in Hawaii history.

Honolulu, Hawaii (Circuit/Probate Court) · 2018Sexual AbuseRead the full story →
$40 millionVerdict

A Hawaii circuit court awarded $40 million to a survivor who was raped and sexually assaulted by a Jehovah's Witnesses elder at the Makaha congregation when she was 12 years old.

Honolulu, Hawaii First Circuit Court · 2023Read the full story →
$36 millionVerdict

A Honolulu jury found that Key Principal Partners LLC used a Houston investor's partnership access to study Honsador Lumber's financials, then quietly acquired the company for itself and cut him out of the $50 million deal entirely.

Honolulu, Hawaii Circuit Court · 2007Read the full story →
$29.5 millionVerdict

A federal bench trial found that Tripler Army Medical Center's 19-hour failure to treat a one-month-old's midgut volvulus destroyed 90 to 95 percent of her small intestine, leaving her with lifelong disability; U.S. District Judge Michael Seabright awarded the Warren family $29,479,308.

Honolulu, U.S. District Court (D. Haw.) · 2023Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$26 millionSettlement

The State of Hawaii settled for $26 million with Jimmy Braddock, who suffered catastrophic and permanent brain injuries when a Pinky Tows flatbed lost its brakes on Likelike Highway in 2019 while the state had left the road's only runaway-truck ramp blocked and unrepaired for 46 days.

Honolulu, Hawaii (State settlement) · 2023Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$15.4 millionSettlement

A Kauai judge found Hawaii totally at fault after a state-posted warning sign at the left trail entrance near Opaeka'a Falls left the right-hand path -- which ended at a sheer 300-foot cliff -- completely unmarked, sending two visiting women to their deaths.

Kauai, Hawaii (Circuit Court) · 2012Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$11 millionSettlement

Davis Levin Livingston secured an $11 million federal settlement, requiring U.S. Attorney General approval, after Tripler Army Medical Center's cascading delivery-room errors, including a misplaced oxygen tube left in place for more than forty minutes, caused a newborn to develop spastic quadriplegia and cerebral palsy.

Honolulu, U.S. District Court (D. Haw.) · 2010Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$9.5 millionSettlement

A 31-year-old Army wife died from sepsis six weeks after surgeons at Tripler Army Medical Center reattached her small intestine backward during a gastric bypass, and the U.S. government agreed to pay her family $9.5 million.

Honolulu, U.S. District Court (D. Haw.) · 2024Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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$4.037 billion (global, multi-firm) · $4.037 Billion Settlement for Maui Wildfire Victims

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