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Washington: Controversial State Supreme Court Decision Illustrates Why Voters Should Reject Referendum 67

On July 26, the Washington State Supreme Court in Woo v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., ruled that Fireman's Fund Insurance Company had engaged in common law bad faith by failing to provide its insured, a dentist who played a practical joke on his sedated assistant, with a legal defense against the dental assistant's legal action against the dentist, and awarded the dentist $750,000 in so-called bad faith damages.


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