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‘Virtual Certainty’ Equals ‘Actual Knowledge’ in Wash. for Latent Injury Diseases

Summary by workerscompensation.com
Case File When it comes to latent disease cases, the Washington Supreme Court did away with a decade-old precedent case to hold that an employer's virtual certainty that disease will occur satisfies the "actual knowledge" prong of the state's deliberate injury exception to the exclusive remedy rule. Simply Research subscribers have access to the full text of the decision. Case Cockrum v. C.H. Murphy, No. 102881-4 (Wash. 05/29/25) What Happened A…
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workerscompensation.com broke the news in on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
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