Michelbrink v. Washington State Patrol

¶1 The Washington State Patrol (WSP) appeals the superior court’s denial of its motion for summary judgment1 against Michael S. Michelbrink Jr. in his action for deliberate intentional infliction of “certain injury’2 from being shot with a Taser during WSP training. WSP argues that the superior court erred in denying its motion for summary judgment because (1) the Industrial Insurance Act (Act), Title 51 RCW, grants WSP immunity from tort liability for Michelbrink’s workplace injury; (2) there was no evidence that WSP intended to cause “certain injury’; (3) WSP neither had knowledge of nor…