DHHL legal settlement distribution nears end

DHHL legal settlement distribution nears end

A genealogical hunt to find beneficiaries of a $328 million Hawaii legal settlement is nearing a likely incomplete end after more than two years of difficult and often emotionally searing work. The effort led by court-­appointed attorneys represents a final phase of parceling out proceeds from the settlement reached four years ago in a class-action lawsuit filed against the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands 23 years earlier in 1999. Kalima…