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About HIWA

Officially organized on November 4, 2004 as Hawaii Injured Workers Association when over 50 concerned citizens of the state met, drafted and approved a charter. The now Hawai'i Injured Workers Association (HIWA) was formed on the example of parallel organizations across the U.S. and Canada. Like its many sister organizations, HIWA was formed to give voice to the many people and groups who feel they and the injured workers they support are being abused and victimized by a growing political agenda that has lost concern and compassion for the real victims of industrial injury, the workers.

Business, corporations and insurers dominate and control testimony at the State Capitol these days. Balance is gone when injured workers are afraid to testify for fear of retaliation. (Hawaii law has no protection for workers who testify against their employers' positions.)

Legislators who have tried to express the injured workers' perspectives are vilified in the media as anti-business. We believe it should not be considered anti-business to treat injured workers fairly and compassionately. After all, the sooner an injured worker can be rehabilitated and returned to the workplace, the better for business in general.

We want positive change. We seek ways to heal and rehabilitate injured workers with all due speed. And, we plead with legislators and the media to endorse workers' compensation reform that, first and foremost, does no harm to injured workers!

Address

715 S. King Street
Suite 205
Honolulu, Hi 96813

Email

info@hiwahawaii.org

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Steve Birnbaum, Attorney

Richard Allgire, Injured Worker

Laurie Hamano, Vocational Rehab Counselor

D. Scott McCaffrey, Physician, Workstar

Carmen Mitsuyasu-Gapero, Injured Worker

Douglas Moore, Attorney

Beverly Jean Lum PHD, Injured Worker

Carrie Noborikawa, Injured Worker

Anne Noto, Paralegal

Evelyn Quartero, Injured Worker

Michael Cooper, Media Consultant


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HIWA is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization

Email:  info@hiwahawaii.org

Our Non-Profit Status

On 12/12/2012 HIWA was granted its non-profit status by the IRS, effective as of 11/30/2011
ER ID No. 45-4038392

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