(a) The relationship between an individual performing professional services as an employee of a professional corporation and a client or patient shall be the same as if the individual performed the services as a sole practitioner.
Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 415A-12
Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
Professional corporation: means a domestic professional corporation for profit subject to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 415A-2
(b) The relationship between a professional corporation performing professional services and the client or patient shall be the same as between the client or patient and the individual performing the services.(c) Any privilege applicable to communications between a person rendering professional services and the person receiving the services recognized under the laws of this State, whether statutory or deriving from common law, shall remain inviolate and shall extend to a professional corporation and its employees in all cases in which it shall be applicable to communications between an individual rendering professional services on behalf of the corporation and the person receiving the services.
