Roy v. Government Employees Insurance Co.

FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST'S HAWAI#I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER

Electronically Filed
Intermediate Court of Appeals
CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX
31-MAR-2023
07:45 AM
Dkt. 154 OCOR

NO. CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX

IN THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS

OF THE STATE OF HAWAI#I

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STEPHEN KEAWE ROY and REBECCA ROY,
Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INSURANCE CO.,
GEICO INSURANCE AGENCY, INC., Defendants-Appellants
and
TIMOTHY DAYTON, RICHARD DWYER, and JOHN DORNAN,
Defendants-Appellees,
and
DOE ENTITIES 1-10, Defendants

APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT
(CIVIL NO. 13-1-2053-07 (KKH))

ORDER OF CORRECTION
(By: Wadsworth, J., for the court1/)

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Opinion of the Court
filed on January 23, 2023, is corrected as follows:
On page 4, in the paragraph numbered "13" of the block
quotation, line 2, insert "[Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS)]" after
the word "violated" so that the line reads:

among other things, that GEICO violated [Hawaii Revised
Statutes (HRS)] HRS § 378-62 (part

On page 10, line 3 of the first full paragraph, delete
the acronym "U.S." and insert the words "United States" so that
the line reads:

1/
Ginoza, Chief Judge, and Leonard, and Wadsworth, JJ.
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the court ruled that the United States Constitution and
article I, section

On page 10, line 6 of the first full paragraph, after
the word "P.3d," delete "460" and insert the word "at" so that
the line reads:

Hawai#i at 494, 496, 331 P.3d at 472, 474. In Grube, the
court

On page 14, in line 3 of the block quotation at the
bottom of the page, delete "[Hawai#i Rules of Evidence (HRE)]"
and replace it with "HRE" so that the line reads:

HRE Rule 503, the document

On page 15, in the first full paragraph, lines 7 and 8,
delete the text, beginning with the comma after "2014)" through
the word "(Anastasi II)", and insert the same after the
explanatory parenthetical, but before the "." at the end of line
11 so that lines 7 through 11 read:

2014) ("[T]he party claiming the privilege has the burden of
establishing that the privilege exists and that it applies
as asserted." (citing DiCenzo v. Izawa, 68 Haw. 528, 536,
723 P.2d 171, 176 (1986); Sapp, 62 Haw. at 38, 609 P.2d at
140)), aff'd in part, vacated in part, 137 Hawai #i 104, 366
P.3d 160 (2016) (Anastasi II).

On page 16, line 3 of the second paragraph, insert a
comma after the word "insured" so that the line reads:

between insurer, insured, and insurance defense counsel.
See

On page 18, line 7 from the bottom of the page, insert
a period after the closing parenthesis and before the word "In"
so that the line reads:

provided it to the legislature."). In particular, given
Roy's

On page 19, line 3 of the paragraph under the heading
"2. Work-Product Doctrine," insert a "-" after the word "work"
so that the line reads:

complaints were not protected from disclosure under the
work-

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On page 25, line 2 of the last paragraph, insert a "-"
between the words "in" and "camera" so that the line reads:

Circuit Court's in-camera review, but did not otherwise
submit
On page 28, line 12 of the first full paragraph,
replace the parenthetical "(App. 2017)" with "(Haw. App. Aug. 2,
2017)" so that the line reads:

*19 (Haw. App. Aug. 2, 2017) (mem.) ("The Mountain Thunder
Defendants did not

The clerk of the court is directed to take all
necessary steps to notify the publishing agencies of this
correction.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai#i, March 31, 2023.

FOR THE COURT:

/s/ Clyde J. Wadsworth
Associate Judge

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