L. Richard Fried, Jr. is one of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks’s founding members and possesses more than 40 years of legal experience. While Mr. Fried handles a wide variety of personal injury cases, including automobile accidents and products liability, he has had particular success handling medical malpractice and aviation accident cases as a Hawaii malpractice attorney. He has obtained more than 50 medical malpractice verdicts and settlements exceeding $1 million.
Mr. Fried’s reputation in the Hawaii legal community has earned him the prestigious AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell®, which signifies the highest level of professional excellence and ethical standards. He has been invited to join many trial lawyer associations and is frequently asked to teach seminars for other attorneys on various aspects of tort law.
Representative cases
- McKenzie v. Hawaii Permanente Med. Group, 98 Hawaii 296, 47 P.3d 1209 (2002)
- Abramson v. Aena Ins. Co., 75 F.3d 304 (9th Cir. 1996)
- Lum v. Queen’s Medical Center, 69 Haw. 419, 744 P.2d 1205 (1987)
- Fernandez v. U.S., 673 F.2d 269 (Ninth Cir. 1982)
- Survivors of Cariaga v. Del Monte Corp., 2 Haw.App. 672, 642 P.2d 537 (1982)
- Peters v. Peters, 63 Haw. 653, 634 P.2d 586 (1981)
- Seibel v. Kembel, 63 Haw. 516, 631 P.2d 173 (1981)
- Siebel v. City and County of Honolulu, 61 Haw. 253, 602 P.2d 532 (1979)
- Gregg Kendall & Associates, Inc. v. Kauhi, 53 Haw. 88, 486 P.2d 136 (1971)
- Evanson v. University of Hawaii, 52 Haw. 595, 483 P.2d 187 (1971)
- McIntosh v. Murphy, 52 Haw. 29, 469 P.2d 177, 52 Haw. 112 (1970)
