HRS §327E-10
Damages for violating this chapter
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section says what money a health-care provider or other person must pay if they break this law on purpose. It covers two situations: providers who violate the chapter, and people who fake or force advance health-care directives. The amounts are set by law, plus actual damages and lawyer fees.
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The statute, as written — Statutory damages [§327E-10] Statutory damages
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) A health-care provider or institution that intentionally violates this chapter shall be subject to liability to the individual or the individual's estate for damages of $500 or actual damages resulting from the violation, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees. (b) A person who intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces, or obliterates an individual's advance health-care directive or a revocation of an advance health-care directive without the individual's consent, or who coerces or fraudulently induces an individual to give, revoke, or not to give an advance health-care directive, shall be subject to liability to that individual for damages of $2,500 or actual damages resulting from the action, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.
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