Lee v. Hawaii Pacific Health

Opinion of the Court by

LEONARD, J.

I. OVERVIEW

Ross Takehiko Unebasami (Ross) was born on June 16, 1982. In 2000, when he was seventeen years old, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Ross was initially treated with chemotherapy, but after a relapse that began in February of 2003, Ross received a bone marrow transplant at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children (Kapi'olani) on March 27, 2004. Ross died at another hospital on June 25, 2004, nine days after his twenty-second birthday.

This case stems from allegations that, when Ross suffered renal failure after the bone…