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Part of an ongoing series about Hawaii’s workers’ compensation system. A year ago, Jay Dela Pina spoke to a Civil Beat reporter about his struggles to get treatment after injuring his lower back working as a hospital custodian when he bent over to pick up a bucket full of solution and mop heads. Over the course of […]
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Editor’s Note: This story is part of an ongoing series about Hawaii’s workers’ compensation system. Annette Kanaulu was heading home to Ewa Beach from her job at The Queen’s Medical Center in October 2017 when she got a call telling her to turn around and go back. It turned out her husband Kimeona, a custodian […]
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Editor’s Note: This is Part 4 of an ongoing series, “Waiting In Pain,” about Hawaii’s workers’ compensation system. Chris Brigham presents himself as an advocate for people who have been injured on the job. Workers are “members of the family,” the 67-year-old doctor told listeners at a convention in Las Vegas in December. “They really define […]
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Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 of an ongoing series, “Waiting In Pain,” about Hawaii’s workers’ compensation system. en Weir claimed he had seriously injured his neck, back, shoulder and knee when he stepped into two open drains at work and twisted awkwardly. So how was he able to help his uncle carry a washing […]
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Part 2 of an ongoing series about Hawaii’s workers’ compensation system. r. Leonard Cupo had just testified in a workers’ compensation case in a windowless hearing room in downtown Honolulu. Cupo, a gregarious man, stood up and shook hands with the small group of attorneys and officials who attended the hearing. Then he came to […]
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Part 1 of an ongoing series about Hawaii’s workers’ compensation system. olen Kauwalu was pumping liquid concrete, helping to assemble a platform that would anchor one of the construction cranes that loom over the Honolulu skyline, when it started to rain. He lost his footing on the slick platform, falling about 12 feet to the […]
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