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LEONG v. KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS

No. 13671.

788 P.2d 164 (1990)

Ernez Ling Wo LEONG, a minor, by his Next of Friend, Jane LEONG, Ernest Leong, Jane Leong, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS, Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Permanente Services of Hawaii, Inc., Estate of Vilis Kruze, M.D., State of Hawaii, Maui Memorial Hospital, A.C. Peat, M.D., Doe One through Doe Fifty, inclusive, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

February 27, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott D. Righthand (James S. Bostwick, on the briefs of Bostwick and Tehin), San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Mary A. Wilkowski (Richard K. Quinn and Rodney W. Williams, on the brief), Honolulu, for defendants-appellees, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Permanente Services of Hawaii, Inc., Estate of Vilis Kruze, M.D., and A.C. Peat, M.D.

Mark S. Davis (Davis & Levin, on the brief), Honolulu, for Hawaii Academy, amicus curiae of plaintiffs-appellants Attys.

Before LUM, C.J., PADGETT, HAYASHI and WAKATSUKI, JJ., and NAKAMURA, Retired Justice, assigned by reason of a vacancy.

WAKATSUKI, Justice.

Chapter 87, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) establishes the Public Employees Health Fund (Health Fund). One of the primary duties of the Health Fund is to contract with health insurance carriers for group health benefits plans for public employees. HRS § 87-22 (Supp. 1989). Individual public employees are given the option of enrolling in one of several group health care plans offered through the Health Fund.

Ernest Leong, an employee...

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