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HRS §490:2-715

What a buyer can recover when a seller breaks the deal

This section explains the extra money a buyer can get from a seller who breaks a contract. It covers incidental costs like inspecting or storing goods, and consequential losses like lost profits or injury from a warranty breach. The buyer must try to limit losses by finding replacement goods.

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The statute, as written — Buyer's incidental and consequential damages

(1) Incidental damages resulting from the seller's breach include expenses reasonably incurred in inspection, receipt, transportation and care and custody of goods rightfully rejected, any commercially reasonable charges, expenses or commission in connection with effecting cover and any other reasonable expense incident to the delay or other breach. (2) Consequential damages resulting from the seller's breach include: (a) Any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and needs of which the seller at the time of contracting had reason to know and which could not reasonably be prevented by cover or otherwise; and (b) Injury to person or property proximately resulting from any breach of warranty.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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