Deggs v. Asbestos Corp.

González, J.

¶ 1 Washington State’s wrongful death act is based on the English Lord Campbell’s Act of 1846. Lord Campbell’s Act gave certain family members a cause of action for a relative’s wrongful death, but only if that *719relative would have had a cause of action for the injury at the time of death had death not occurred. While our state’s legislature did not adopt that limitation, almost a century ago, this court did. We have since carved out some exceptions. We are asked today to abandon that limitation completely and to reinstate a daughter’s case for the wrongful death of her father even…