2025-01-30 02:35:00 :
Honolulu (AP) -The lawyer representing the victim of the fatal Hawaiian wildfire reached the last minute agreement to avoid the trial on Wednesday to determine how to allocate $ 4 billion in settlement.
The agreement means that the victims and survivors will not have to testify. They restore more than 100 people in Lahaina’s large -scale hell court details, destroy thousands of property, and cause $ 5.5 billion worth of US $ 5.5 billion loss.
Before the trial was scheduled to start on Wednesday morning, the lawyer met with Judge Peter Cahill in private, and the latter later announced that it had reached an agreement on Tuesday evening. The lawyer is expected to submit the court documents in detail within a week.
Some victims have prepared to accept the witness, while others submitted pre -recorded testimony, describing the pain to make the recent destruction in Los Angeles more fresh.
One of the lawyers on behalf of the plaintiff Jacob Lowenthal, “I dare to be disappointed because they are sure to share the story.” “Others will rest assured because they don’t have to make progress. Trust.
One of the plaintiffs was Kevin Baclig, his wife, father -in -law, mother -in -law and brother -in -law were one of the 102 people known to die.
Barkleg said in a statement that if he was asked to testify, he would describe him searched them in three painful days-from hotels to hotels, asylum, asylum. He said: “I have a vulnerable hope, maybe they have left the island, they are safe.”
One and a half months passed, and the reality in reality began. He went to the Philippines and collected DNA samples from my wife’s close relatives. The matching sample was found in the fire. In the end, he took their body back to the Philippines.
He said: “The loss has caused me to be deep and ruthless.” “No words can describe my emptiness or the weight I carried every day.”
Josh Green, Governor of Hawaii, announced a $ 4 billion settlement agreement-agreed by the state, the electric power company Hawaii Electric, the owner of the large land and other people-about the most deadly American wild fire since 2023 a century is in the century. Lahaina, which was destroyed in 2023. At that time, he touted the speed of the transaction to “avoid lasting and painful lawsuits.”
The trial should determine the percentage distribution between the two groups of plaintiffs, including some of the victims covered by the loss of family members, housing or enterprises, and other collective lawsuits, including the people who filed individual lawsuits, including the fire of tourists who canceled the travel because of it.
Lovina said that only one set of settlements can be handed over to delay or cancel tourists.
He said: “Compared with our losses, the class claimed by the class is very insignificant.”
The lawyer of the class did not reply to the Associated Press’s email and asked to comment on the trial.
In their trial abstract, they challenged the thoughts of everyone worthy of prosecution. Abstract said that many people hire lawyers due to the destruction of the fire.
In addition, the Supreme Court of the State is considering whether insurance companies can claim the defendant with a claim of more than $ 2 billion in the high fire claims in the high fire, or whether their share must come from $ 4 billion in settlement. Oral debate in this case is scheduled to be on February 6.
“This is the last big work that needs to be determined before the global solution advances.”
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