Honolulu Legal Blog

A Big Island man accused of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor after traveling to Cambodia made his initial appearance in federal court here today. Richard David Mitchell, 61, of Kamuela, on the island of Hawaii, is charged in a criminal complaint filed on August 26, 2009 in United States District Court in [...]

Queen’s Medical Center (”QMC”) of Honolulu, Hawaii has paid a total of $2.5 million to settle two lawsuits alleging that QMC over billed the Medicare program, the State of Hawaii Medicaid program, and TRICARE, the federal health benefits program for military dependents. The settlement grew out of civil “whistleblower” suits brought in federal and state [...]