Opinion ID: 2832576
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Heading: Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion

Text: On August 10, 2009, Plaintiffs filed a “Renewed Motion to Amend the Complaint to Conform to the Evidence and Renewed Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law, or, in the Alternative, Motion for New Trial” (“Renewed Motion”). Plaintiffs argued, inter alia, that JMOL on the informed consent claim should have been entered in their favor because Defendant failed to provide statutorily mandated information pursuant to HRS § 671-3(b) (Supp. 2008)10 about (1) recognized alternative treatments and/or 10 HRS § 671-3 (Supp. 2008) provides, in relevant part: (b) The following information shall be supplied to the patient or the patient’s guardian or legal surrogate prior to obtaining consent to a proposed medical or surgical treatment or a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure:
(2) A description of the proposed treatment or procedure; (3) The intended and anticipated results of the proposed treatment or procedure; (continued . . . ) 14  FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAII REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER  medications, and (2) recognized material risks of serious complications or mortality associated with the proposed treatment or procedure. The circuit court denied Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion at an October 14, 2009 hearing, and entered its order the following day. On November 13, 2009, Plaintiffs appealed the July 28, 2009 Final Judgment and October 15, 2009 order denying their Renewed Motion to the ICA.