FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION TO GRANT DEFENDANTS MAUI ESTATES INTERNATIONAL, LLC AND BOB HANSEN, JAMES HUNT AND CAROL HUNT, BARRY BROWN DBA RE/MAX ISLAND PROPERTIES, PLAINTIFF DOUBLETREES LAND AND TIMBER, LLC, AND THIRD PARTY DEFENDANTS WILLARD GARY DEARDORFF AND JOAN DEARDORFF'S JOINT PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF GOOD FAITH SETTLEMENT PURSUANT TO HAW. REV. STAT. § 663.15.5 (FILED MARCH 23, 2016)

KEVIN S. C. CHANG, Magistrate Judge.

FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION TO GRANT DEFENDANTS MAUI ESTATES INTERNATIONAL, LLC AND BOB HANSEN, JAMES HUNT AND CAROL HUNT, BARRY BROWN DBA RE/MAX ISLAND PROPERTIES, PLAINTIFF DOUBLETREES LAND AND TIMBER, LLC, AND THIRD PARTY DEFENDANTS WILLARD GARY DEARDORFF AND JOAN DEARDORFF'S JOINT PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF GOOD FAITH SETTLEMENT PURSUANT TO HAW. REV. STAT. § 663.15.5 (FILED MARCH 23, 2016)

Defendants MAUI ESTATES INTERNATIONAL, LLC and BOB HANSEN, JAMES HUNT and CAROL HUNT, and BARRY BROWN DBA RE/MAX ISLAND PROPERTIES; Plaintiff DOUBLETREES LAND AND TIMBER, LLC; and Third Party Defendants WILLARD GARY DEARDORFF and JOAN DEARDORFF (hereinafter collectively the "Petitioners") having filed a Joint Petition for Determination of Good Faith Settlement Pursuant to Haw. Rev. Stat. § 663-15.5 in the above-entitled case on March 23, 2016 (hereinafter the "Petition"); and

Said Petition having duly come on for hearing before the Honorable KEVIN S. C. CHANG on May 3, 2016, at 9:30 a.m.; and

Plaintiff DOUBLETREES LAND AND TIMBER, LLC and Third Party Defendants WILLARD GARY DEARDORFF and JOAN DEARDORFF, having been represented by Abigail M. Holden; Defendants MAUI ESTATES INTERNATIONAL LLC and BOB HANSEN, having been represented by Michael D. Tom; and Defendants JAMES HUNT and CAROL HUNT, having been represented by Shauna Bell at the hearing of said Petition; and

The Court having heard the arguments of counsel, reviewed the record, having reviewed all settlement terms as set forth in the Sealed Exhibit "A", and based upon the "totality of the circumstances" as required by Troyer v. Adams, 102 Haw. 399, 77 P.3d 83 (2003), and pursuant to HRS § 663-15.5;

The Court HEREBY FINDS and RECOMMENDS that Defendants MAUI ESTATES INTERNATIONAL, LLC and BOB HANSEN, JAMES HUNT and CAROL HUNT, and BARRY BROWN DBA RE/MAX ISLAND PROPERTIES; Plaintiff DOUBLETREES LAND AND TIMBER, LLC; and Third Party Defendants WILLARD GARY DEARDORFF and JOAN DEARDORFF's Joint Petition for Determination of Good Faith Settlement Pursuant to Haw. Rev. Stat. § 663-15.5, filed herein on March 23, 2016, be granted, that any and all claims that have been asserted against the parties be dismissed with prejudice and that all joint tortfeasors and joint obligors are barred from asserting any future claims against the parties.