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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.