AGA v. HUNDAHL

No. 17330.

891 P.2d 1022 (1995)

78 Hawai`i 230

Uria Howard AGA, Individually, and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Nancy Aga, Deceased, and as Next Friend of Galutau Ierome Aga, Manhart Penina Aga, Paulo Tamatane Aga, and Jacob Howard Aga, minors, Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Scott HUNDAHL, M.D., Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, and The Queen's Medical Center; The Queen's Health System; The Queen's Health Technology Corporation; The Queen's Health Care Plan Inc.; The Queen's Health Services; Kaiser Foundation Hospital; Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.; Hawaii Permanente Medical Group Inc.; Kaiser Foundation International; Hawaii Kaiser Permanente Care; John Does 1-50; Jane Does 1-50; Doe Municipalities 1-50; Doe Partnerships 1-50; and Doe Corporations 1-50, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

March 24, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Schutter (Eve M. Green with him on the briefs) of Schutter & Associates, Honolulu, for plaintiffs-appellants/cross-appellees.

Dennis E.W. O'Connor (Kelvin H. Kaneshiro with him on the briefs) of Reinwald O'Connor Marrack Hoskins & Playdon, Honolulu, for defendants-appellees/cross-appellants.

Before MOON, C.J., and LEVINSON and NAKAYAMA, JJ., Circuit Judge CRANDALL in place of KLEIN, J., recused, and Circuit Judge HUDDY in place of RAMIL, J., recused.


NAKAYAMA, Justice.

This appeal arises out of a medical malpractice jury trial in which appellee/cross-appellant, Scott Hundahl, M.D., (Appellee) was found negligent but not a legal cause of Nancy Aga's (Nancy) death. Appellants/cross-appellees, Nancy's husband — Uria Howard Aga (Howard) — and her four children, Galutau Ierome Aga, Manhart Penina Aga, Paulo Tamatane Aga and Jacob Howard Aga (including Howard, collectively Appellants), appeal the jury...

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