Hawaii Revised Statutes 672b. Design Claim Conciliation Panel

• 672b-1 Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: "Department" means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. "Design professional" means a professional engineer, architect, surveyor, or landscape...
• 672b-2 Administration of Chapter.
  The director shall be responsible for the implementation and administration of this chapter and shall adopt rules, in conformity with chapter 91, necessary for...
• 672b-3 Design Claim Conciliation Panels; Composition, Selection, Compensation.
  (a) There are established design claim conciliation panels that shall review and render findings and advisory opinions on the issues of liability and damages...
• 672b-4 Waiver of Filing Fee.
  (a) If any party to a claim cannot pay the required filing fee, the party may file with the director a motion to waive...
• 672b-5 Review by Panel Required; Notice; Presentation of Claims; Request for a More Definite Statement of the Claim.
  (a) Effective January 1, 2008, any person or the person's representative claiming that a tort has been committed by a design professional shall submit...
• 672b-6 Certificate of Consultation.
  (a) Any claim filed with the design claim conciliation panel under this chapter shall be accompanied by a certificate that declares one of the...
• 672b-7 Design Claim Conciliation Panel Hearing; Fact-Finding; Evidence; Voluntary Settlement.
  (a) Every claim of a tort against a design professional shall be heard by the design claim conciliation panel within thirty days after the...
• 672b-8 Design Claim Conciliation Panel Hearing; Persons Attending.
  Unless excluded or excused by the panel, the following persons shall attend hearings before the panel: (1) The party or parties making the claim;...
• 672b-9 Design Claim Conciliation Panel Hearing; Decisions.
  (a) Within thirty days after the completion of a hearing, the design claim conciliation panel shall file a written advisory decision with the department...
• 672b-10 Expungement of Records; Liability Insurance Rates.
  (a) Upon a decision by the design claim conciliation panel finding for the design professional pursuant to section 672B-9(a), the design professional may apply...
• 672b-11 Subsequent Litigation; Excluded Evidence.
  The claimant may institute litigation based upon the claim in an appropriate court only after a party to a design claim conciliation panel hearing...
• 672b-12 Arbitration; Subsequent Litigation.
  Any person or the person's representative claiming that a tort has been committed by a design professional or any design professional against whom a...
• 672b-13 Submission of Claim to an Alternative Dispute Resolution Provider.
  (a) Any claim initially filed with the design claim conciliation panel may be subsequently submitted to an alternative dispute resolution provider upon the written...
• 672b-14 Immunity of Panel Members From Liability.
  No member of a design claim conciliation panel shall be liable in damages for libel, slander, or other defamation of character of any party...
• 672b-15 Statute of Limitations Tolled.
  The filing of the claim with the design claim conciliation panel or with an approved alternative dispute resolution provider shall toll any applicable statute...
• 672b-16 Duty to Cooperate; Assessment of Costs and Fees.
  It shall be the duty of every person who files a claim with the design claim conciliation panel, every design professional against whom the...
• 672b-17 Annual Report.
  The director shall prepare and submit to the legislature annually, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session, a...

Last modified: October 27, 2016