Seattle Wrongful Death: A Northern Virginia Family’s Guide
A Northern Virginia family's guide to wrongful death claims in Washington State, with Seattle as the focal jurisdiction. I walk readers through the Washington Wrongful Death Statute at RCW 4.20.010, the parallel survival actions at RCW 4.20.046 and 4.20.060, the 2019 amendment to RCW 4.20.020 expanding beneficiary eligibility, the post-Sofie v. Fibreboard absence of any noneconomic damages cap, the distinctive Washington no-punitive-damages rule, the pure comparative fault framework at RCW 4.22.005, the several liability framework at RCW 4.22.070, the 3-year SOL at RCW 4.16.080(2) and the 8-year medmal statute of repose at RCW 4.16.350, the state and local government tort liability frameworks, and how NoVA-to-Washington travel ties (Sea-Tac, JBLM, Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing) produce cross-jurisdictional cases.
