Hawai’i High Court: Insurers Cannot Intervene In Wildfire Class Action Settlement

( February 19, 2026, 9:39 AM EST) -- HONOLULU — The Hawai’i Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s order denying subrogating insurers’ motion to intervene in class action settlement proceedings that resulted in a $4.03 billion aggregate “global settlement” in favor of individual plaintiffs affected by the Lahaina wildfire, relying on an In re Maui Fire Cases holding that the insurers’ sole remedy is a lien on the settlement when the insureds settle with defendants and noting that adopting the subrogating insurers’ argument “would  functionally eliminate mass tort class settlements.”...