Hawaii Providers Network, Inc. v. AIG Hawaii Insurance Co.

Opinion of the Court by

ACOBA, J.

We hold that Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 431:10C-308.5 (1993) which referred to the worker compensation treatment schedules adopted by the director (director) of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) in the Hawai'i Administrative Rules (HAR) as the schedules governing the amount of payments to providers of no-fault benefits under motor vehicle insurance policies must be construed as having generally incorporated the worker compensation fee schedules as they may have been adopted and amended from time to time. Accordingly, after the…