HAWAII INSURERS COUNCIL v. LINGLE

No. 27840.

201 P.3d 564 (2008)

HAWAII INSURERS COUNCIL, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Linda LINGLE, Governor, State Of Hawai`i; Georgina K. Kawamura, Director of Finance, Department of Budget and Finance; Lawrence M. Reifurth, Director, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; J.P. Schmidt, Insurance Commissioner, Insurance Division, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

December 18, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa Woods Munger (Gary M. Slovin and Donna H. Kalama with her on the briefs), Honolulu, for the plaintiff-appellee-respondent Hawaii Insurers Council.

Mark J. Bennett (Kimberly Tsumoto Guidry, Honolulu, and James F. Nagle with him on the briefs), for the defendants-appellants-petitioners Linda Lingle, Georgina K. Kawamura, Lawrence M. Reifurth, and J.P. Schmidt.

MOON, C.J., LEVINSON, NAKAYAMA, ACOBA, and DUFFY, JJ.


Opinion of the Court by LEVINSON, J.

We accepted the application for a writ of certiorari filed by the defendants-appellants-petitioners Linda Lingle, Governor, State of Hawai`i, Georgina K. Kawamura, Director of Finance, Department of Budget and Finance (DBF), Lawrence M. Reifurth, Director, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA), and J.P. Schmidt, Insurance Commissioner, Insurance Division, DCCA (collectively, the State) in order to review the published...

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