2023 Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 21. Labor and Industrial Relations
386. Workers' Compensation Law

PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS PART II. COMPENSATION
A. Medical and Rehabilitation Benefits
B. Income and Indemnity Benefits
1. disability
2. death 3. Provisions Common to Benefits for Disability and Death PART III. ADMINISTRATION PART IV. SECURITY FOR COMPENSATION; EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS OF
INJURED EMPLOYEES; FUNDS
A. Security for Compensation
B. Employment Rights of Injured Employees C. Special Compensation Fund PART V. APPLICABILITY TO HAWAII GUARD, VOLUNTEER PERSONNEL
AND PUBLIC BOARD MEMBERS
A. Hawaii Guard
B. Volunteer Personnel C. Public Board Members, Reserve Police Officers, Police Chaplains, Volunteer Firefighters, Volunteer Boating Enforcement Officers, Volunteer Conservation and Resources Enforcement Officers, and Reserve Public Safety Law Enforcement Officers PART VI. SELF-INSURANCE GROUPS

Note

Chapter heading amended by L 1975, c 41, 1.

This chapter is based on L 1963, c 116, which completely revised and reenacted this chapter. See also L 1975, c 41, 1.

For prior legislative history see: Chapter 97 in RLH 1955, vol 1; L 1957, cc 55, 78, 80, 81, 133, 134, 214, 215, and 216; L 1959, cc 48, 78, 185, 240, and 241; L 1961, cc 3, 5, 99, 115, and 152.

Cross References

Hawaii employers' mutual insurance company, see 431:14A-101 to 431:14A-119.

Leave sharing program, see 78-26.

Workers' compensation closed claims study by auditor; submission to 2018 legislature. L 2016, c 188.

Attorney General Opinions

Absent explicit inclusion, hanai children were not entitled to statutory benefits under workers' compensation laws. Att. Gen. Op. 93-1.

Neither the disability compensation division (DCD) nor the labor and industrial relations appeals board (LIRAB) is an "entity" for purposes of chapter 323C when it reviews, evaluates, and decides on claims for workers compensation; some provisions of chapter 323C apply to each in its adjudicatory capacity because the DCD and the LIRAB receive protected health information when they process workers compensation claims. Att. Gen. Op. 2000-2.

Law Journals and Reviews

Commentary on Selected Employment and Labor Law Decisions Under the Lum Court. 14 UH L. Rev. 423 (1992).

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Remedies Available to Victims in Hawai`i. 15 UH L. Rev. 453 (1993).

Hawai`i's Workers' Compensation Scheme: An Employer's License to Kill? 29 UH L. Rev. 211 (2006).

One-Sided Bargain? Assessing the Fairness of Hawai`i's Workers' Compensation Law. 31 UH L. Rev. 553 (2009).

The Jones Act Fish Farmer. 33 UH L. Rev. 223 (2010).

Case Notes

Exclusive remedy for assault and battery suffered during work. 634 F. Supp. 684 (1986).

Plaintiff failed to exhaust the administrative remedies provided to plaintiff by this chapter; prior to filing a separate suit for bad faith denial of benefits or payments, plaintiff must first exhaust all available administrative remedies before the department of labor and industrial relations, disability compensation division. 28 F. Supp. 2d 588 (1997).

This chapter does not bar claims based on the intentional conduct of an employer or employee because such claims are not based on "accidents" related to employment; plaintiff's intentional infliction of emotional distress claim not barred by this chapter. 721 F. Supp. 2d 947 (2010).

Workers' compensation law is constitutional. 71 H. 358, 791 P.2d 1257 (1990).

Appeals board correctly determined that consequent medical expenses attributable to claimant's non-industrial motor vehicle accident were not covered by this chapter. 77 H. 152, 883 P.2d 73 (1994).

Claimant not precluded by exclusivity provision of 386-5 from seeking common law tort remedies against employer's insurer where injuries allegedly caused by insurer's denial of medical benefits and disability payments not "work injuries" within scope of this chapter. 83 H. 457, 927 P.2d 858 (1996).

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