Areas of Focus
Coverage Disputes
Personal Injury
Bad Faith
Employment
UM/UIM Arbitrations
Family Law
Litigation Experience
For most of his 30-year litigation career Mr. Harada-Stone concentrated in the areas of insurance coverage litigation, bad faith defense, uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage arbitrations and personal injury defense.
He also has significant experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in employment litigation, business disputes and tort matters. Mr. Harada-Stone’s practice has included involvement in numerous mediations and arbitrations, pretrial and trial work, and appellate advocacy before state and federal courts.
Judicial and Arbitration Service
Mr. Harada-Stone serves as a per diem judge in the District and Family Courts of the Third Circuit, a position he has held since 2023. He has also served as an arbitrator with the Court Annexed Arbitration Program in the Third Circuit since 2002.
Mediation Training
In 2025, Mr. Harada-Stone completed Mediating the Litigated Case, an intensive course offered by the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Caruso Law School – Pepperdine in California. He has also completed the basic mediation and Family/Domestic Mediation trainings with the West Hawaiʻi Mediation Center, where he serves as a volunteer mediator.
Education and Professional Background
David R. Harada-Stone graduated from Roosevelt High School in Honolulu in 1978, received his BA in Journalism from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa in 1986, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the William S. Richardson School of Law in 1994. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Hawaiʻi Law Review.
In 2026 he received his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in insurance law, with honors, from the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Following Law School, Mr. Harada-Stone served as Law Clerk to the Hon. Samuel P. King, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaiʻi. Thereafter he worked as an associate with McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon and later Tom Petrus & Miller, LLLC in Honolulu before returning to his home on the Big Island to work with Jerry Hiatt, one of Hawaiʻi’s premier litigators.
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David R. Harada-Stone, Esq.
Mediator • Arbitrator • Insurance Expert