HRS §431:15-330
When a guarantor can file a claim for a creditor
If someone else guaranteed a debt owed to a creditor by an insurer, and the creditor does not file a claim, the guarantor can file it in the creditor's name. The guarantor takes over the creditor's rights but only gets paid after the creditor is fully paid. Any extra money the creditor gets is held for the guarantor.
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The statute, as written — Claims of surety
Whenever a creditor whose claim against an insurer is secured, in whole or in part, by the undertaking of another person, fails to prove and file that claim, the other person may do so in the creditor's name, and shall be subrogated to the rights of the creditor, whether the claim has been filed by the creditor or by the other person in the creditor's name, to the extent that the other person discharges the undertaking. In the absence of an agreement with the creditor to the contrary, the other person shall not be entitled to any distribution, however, until the amount paid to the creditor on the undertaking plus the distributions paid on the claim from the insurer's estate to the creditor equals the amount of the entire claim of the creditor. Any excess received by the creditor shall be held by the creditor in trust for such other person. The term other person as used in this section is not intended to apply to a guaranty fund or association, or foreign guaranty association.
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