United States v. Allstate Insurance

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

NAKAMURA, J.

We are asked to answer “a question of Hawaii state law determinative of a cause of action pending before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on which there is no clear controlling precedent in the Hawaii judicial decisions.”1 The ques*291tion propounded by the federal appellate court for our response is whether the United States may recover from a serviceman’s no-fault insurance carrier the costs of medical care furnished in a government hospital to the serviceman who was injured in a motor vehicle accident.2 After reviewing the facts…