Washington Supreme Court Lowers Deliberate Injury Standard For Latent Diseases

( June 10, 2025, 10:39 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A divided Washington Supreme Court overturned precedent requiring actual knowledge that a disease will arise, saying that in latent disease cases such as mesothelioma, employees need only show that it was a virtual certainty that a disease would arise to sue employers under the deliberate injury exception to the workers’ compensation system....

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