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· 5/30/2000

Flor v. Holguin

Citations

  • 9 P.3d 382
  • 94 Haw. 70
  • 2000 Haw. LEXIS 373

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that the remedial purpose of the system is to “provide compensation for an employee for all work-connected injuries, regardless of questions of negligence and proximate cause” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
  • requiring, inter alia, that the injury-by-disease be “caused by conditions that are characteristic of or peculiar to the particular trade, occupation, or employment” (emphasis added)
  • discussing the date of injury in the context of an occupational disease
  • “[The Workers’ Compensation Laws’] paramount purpose is to provide compensa tion to an employee for all work-related inju-ríese.]”
  • section 386-85(1) mandated presumption that complainant's \injury by disease\ is compensable work-connected injury
  • section 386-85(1) mandated presumption that complainant's “injury by disease” is compensable work-connected injury

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Judges: Moon, Levinson, Nakayama, Ramil, Baxa

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