Iddings v. Mee-Lee

MOON, Chief Justice.

In this case, dealing with the scope and requirements of the statutory “wilful[1] and wanton misconduct” exception to the co-employee immunity provisions of Hawaii’s workers’ compensation scheme, Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS) chapter 386, plaintiff-appellant Barbara Iddings appeals from the *4First Circuit Court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellee Dennis Mee-Lee, M.D. Iddings, a nurse in the Intensive Care Module of Castle Medical Center’s (CMC) Human Services Unit, suffered injuries while she assisted other CMC staff members in subduing a violent…