Molly Jo Campbell

Director

Molly Jo Campbell has practiced extensively in the workers' compensation arena since 1977. She originally served as a Deputy Attorney General representing the State of Hawaii, Special Compensation Fund (second injury fund) in workers' compensation cases. However, she also provided legal services to the State of Hawaii in the areas of temporary disability insurance, unemployment insurance, wage and hour, and employment practices matters.

Ms. Campbell joined the Firm in 1980 and became a Director on January 1, 1984 primarily representing self-insured employers, third party administrators and insurance carriers in workers' compensation matters from the administrative levels of the Disability Compensation Division and Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board and continuing through the appellate levels of the Intermediate Court of Appeals and the Hawaii Supreme Court. She has been a speaker on various workers' compensation topics in the community.

Ms. Campbell has served as an arbitrator for the Court Annexed Arbitration Program in civil cases before the Circuit Court of the First Circuit since its inception. She has also defended employers in worker's compensation fraud, unemployment insurance and wrongful discharge cases.

Education

• University of Washington, B.A., 1973
• Gonzaga University School of Law, J.D., 1976

Admissions

• Hawaii State Bar
• U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Memberships & Civic Activities

• Hawaii State Bar Association
• Hawaii Women Lawyers
• American Bar Association
• Team Captain for American Diabetes Association's Walk for Diabetes, 2006-2009

Lectures and Panels

• Safely Navigating The Hawaii Workers' Compensation Statute To Avoid The Most Costly Compliance Mistakes (2005)
• Solving the Workers' Compensation Case Management Puzzle:  Ethical Dilemmas & Solutions (4-25-03)
• Solving Your Most Challenging Workers' Comp Dilemmas:  Case Studies of Confusing Psychiatric Claims, Compensability Issues and More! (3-4-03)
• Stressed!!! Who Isn't??? Why Stress Claims Are Not Always Compensable (10-25-96), 1996 Convention, Hawaii Psychological Association
• The Impact Of Vocational Rehabilitation On Permanent Total Disability Determinations (3-16-90)
• Evaluating and Defending Permanent Total Disability Claims Under The Oddlot Doctrine in Hawaii (12-7-89)

Reported Cases:

• Shipley v. Ala Moana Hotel,
  83 Hawaii 361, 926 P2d 1284 (1996).