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Areas of Practice
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
- Business Disputes
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Litigation
- Health Care
- Defense of medical malpractice and professional liability claims (in the courts, arbitration, mediation, and agency proceedings)
- Medical risk management (seminars, advising, and development of risk-prevention policies)
- Emergency court orders and advising on emergency health care issues
- Credentialing, peer review, and health care quality improvement issues
- Medical records confidentiality and HIPAA concerns
- Record-keeping practices
- Health care coverage disputes
- Health insurance issues
- ERISA, COBRA, and Prepaid Health Care issues
- Health care compliance, fraud, and conflict of interest concerns
- Training physicians to give effective testimony in legal settings (and providing stress management seminars for providers in medical-legal cases)
- Administrative law (for matters before the Board of Medical Examiners, Department of Health, SHPDA, Insurance Commissioner's office, etc.)
- Personal Injury Litigation, Defense
Admitted to Practice
- Hawai`i
- U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai`i
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Affiliations
- American Arbitration Association
- Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators (1990-2002)
- American Bar Association
- Litigation, Torts, and Insurance Practice Sections
- Hawai`i State Bar Association
- Chairman, Committee on Liaison with Private Investigators (1984)
- Commercial Arbitrator
- Court Annexed Arbitration Program (1st Circuit Court, Hawai`i)
- Arbitrator (1995-present)
- Defense Research Institute
- Hawai`i Medical Claims Conciliation Panels
Teaching Positions
- Adjunct Professor of Law - Litigation. William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai`i, Honolulu, HI (1976-1977)
Awards and Recognition
- Best Lawyers for Medical Malpractice litigation (2007)
- Best Lawyers in America, Personal Injury Litigation (2005-2007)
- Chambers USA, Leading Lawyer in the Field of Commercial Litigation (2005-2007)
- Honolulu Magazine, Best Lawyers in Hawai`i (2005
- Best's Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys
- Martindale-Hubbell AV rating
Education
- Columbia University, School of Law (J.D. 1972)
- Colgate University (B.A. 1968)
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Attorneys and staff of AHFI will be volunteering on Thursday, April 10 from 6 to 9am on radio station KHPR on day number 2 of Challenge 2008 in support of Hawaii Public Radio.
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Trudy Burns Stone has joined AHFI as Of Counsel and will be working with
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Lessees' lawsuit against the City and County of Honolulu for violations of the U.S. Constitution reinstated
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Class certification granted in lawsuit to identify and provide services for homeless children
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Lawsuit filed to stop illegal vacation rentals on North Shore
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