Except as provided in this chapter, an emergency worker and his or her dependents shall have no right to receive compensation from the state, from the agency, from the local organization for emergency management with which he or she is registered, or from the county or city which has empowered the local organization for emergency management to register him or her and direct his or her activities, for an injury or death arising out of and occurring in the course of his or her activities as an emergency worker.
RCW 38.52.190
Compensation for injury or death—Chapter exclusive.
Known as the Washington Emergency Management Act
The act spans §§ 38–38 (77 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Hauber v. Yakima County (2002)
Most recently applied in Locke v. City of Seattle (June 2006)
2011 c 336 s 792; 1984 c 38 s 18; 1974 ex.s. c 171 s 21; 1953 c 223 s 3.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.