"Injury" means a sudden and tangible happening, of a traumatic nature, producing an immediate or prompt result, and occurring from without, and such physical conditions as result therefrom.
RCW 51.08.100
"Injury."
Applied in 52 court decisions — leading case 107 Wash. 2d 563 - Reese v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1987)
Most recently applied in Sheila Larose, Appellant/cross-resp v. King County And Pda, Respondent/cross-appellants (March 2019)
1961 c 23 s 51.08.100
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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.