§657-23 Extension while criminal case is pending. If at any time when any cause of action for recovery of restitution or compensation for damage or injury to a victim of a crime exists, a criminal action is pending which arises out of the same occurrence, the time during which the criminal action is pending shall not be deemed or taken as any part of the time limited for the commencement of the civil action.
As used in this section, a criminal action is pending until the court's jurisdiction in the criminal action is terminated. [L 1986, c 225, §1; am L 1998, c 269, §2]
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 36. Civil Remedies and Defenses and Special Proceedings
657-1.8 Civil action arising from sexual offenses; application; certificate of merit.
657-3.5 Relation back of amendments.
657-4 Two years; libel and slander.
657-5 Domestic judgments and decrees.
657-5.5 Judgments for support.
657-6 Four years; causes arising in foreign jurisdiction, etc.
657-7 Damage to persons or property.
657-7.3 Medical torts; limitation of actions; time.
657-7.5 Third-party defendants, time in which plaintiff may amend.
657-8 Limitation of action for damages based on construction to improve real property.
657-9 Action barred in foreign jurisdiction.
657-11 Recoveries authorized by federal statute.
657-13 Infancy, insanity, imprisonment.
657-14 Disability to exist at accrual of action.
657-15 Two or more disabilities.
657-18 Extension by absence from State.
657-19 Extension by injunction.
657-20 Extension by fraudulent concealment.
657-21 Extension by keeping defendant in ignorance.
657-21.5 Extension by sentencing of criminal defendant.
657-22 When process not commencement.
657-23 Extension while criminal case is pending.
657-24 Periodic payments of damages.