Deggs v. Asbestos Corp.
Court of Appeals of Washington
1Opinion of the CourtAppelwick, J.
¶1 Deggs, as personal representative for her father’s estate, appeals the dismissal on summary judgment of her wrongful death action. In 1999, her father successfully sued several defendants for injuries related to asbestos exposure. In 2012, two years after her father passed away, Deggs filed a wrongful death action against one of the same defendants from the 1999 lawsuit and several new defendants. Wrongful death claims derive from the wrongful act and do not accrue absent a valid subsisting cause of action in the decedent at the time of death. Deggs’s father had no valid subsisting cause…
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