Jan 16, 2025 · The worker is entitled to a wage adjustment under RCW 51.28.040. The employer provided the worker with housing on the d te of his injury but terminated his housing almost a year later. Losing in-kind compensation like housing during a period of disability constitutes a change of circumstances allo
Jun 11, 2025 · The Washington Supreme Court recently decided a case making it easier for injured employees to meet the “deliberate injury” exception to Washington ’s workers ’ compensation statutes and allow workers to sue their employers for latent diseases, like cancer after a career or asbestos exposure. In Cockrum v. C.H. Murphy/Clark-Ullman, Inc., an employee was repeatedly exposed to asbestos ...
Jan 4, 2018 · ¶2 Addressing a question of first impression in Washington , we hold that the judicial branch’s discretion to deny a government motion to dismiss criminal charges exists as a check on abuse of prosecutorial discretion, not to usurp or interfere with the good faith exercise of prosecutorial discretion.