This Law360Insurance Authority article covers top property insurance cases to watch in 2025. Sills Cummis’ Scott Greenspan weighed in on the Hawaii Supreme Court’s consideration of a proposed $4 billion settlement for the victims of a 2023 wildfire in Maui. The settlement could be at risk depending on how the Hawaii Supreme Court addresses key questions about insurers’ rights to recoup payments made to policyholders who were victims.
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Scott D. Greenspan, a policyholder attorney with Sills Cummis & Gross PC, said that if the court were to fail to promptly issue a ruling, it could open itself up to criticism for delaying or denying justice for the wildfire victims.
“If the Hawaii Supreme Court still hasn’t ruled, then the case presents the court with a stark choice between two competing alternatives,” Greenspan said, adding that those choices are “the preservation of insurers’ subrogation rights, which is strongly enshrined in prior Hawaii Supreme Court precedent, and the desire and need to compensate the victims of what is, by everyone’s account, a tragic disaster of historic proportions.”
