Wickert: Navigating The Subrogation Trade Winds in 'the Middle of Nowhere'

Hawaii. There is no place like it on earth. It is the most remote population center on the face of the planet, 2,400 miles from the nearest anything. It has the most diverse population on earth, with no racial or ethnic group constituting a majority, and a continuing effort underway to create a separate region for those who identify as native Hawaiians. Settled by Polynesians as early as 300 A.D., and later visited by the English explorer James Cook in 1778, its inhabitants today speak not only English, but also Hawaiian — a language with only 12 letters in its alphabet (vowels...