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An investigator hired by a property insurer that claims an HP laptop battery sparked a deadly apartment fire conceded on cross-examination Tuesday that, after hearing a contemporaneous police witness interview read at the Washington trial, he can't rule out the possibility that a resident set the blaze.
Counsel for a Washington hospital told the state Supreme Court on Tuesday it's not liable for warning nearly 3,000 patients to get tested for hepatitis C over an incident with an infected nurse, saying the patients weren't exposed to the nurse and case law requires actual exposure, not just fear of exposure.
A citizens group alleges that Weyerhaeuser Company is violating the Clean Water Act by illegally discharging oil, grease and other pollutants from a southeast Washington lumber mill that "foul the water" in a nearby river and bay, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Tacoma, Washington.
A Washington federal judge on Wednesday tossed a sex-trafficking survivor's complaint alleging hotel chain Extended Stay America Inc. "turned a blind eye" to illegal activity on its property, in an order that agreed with a judge in Oregon who dismissed related claims for similar reasons, including lack of jurisdiction.
A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday rejected an effort by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be released from jail to prepare for his trial in three weeks, ruling he was unpersuaded by the failed crypto boss's unsupported claims that he can't access electronically stored discovery while in a Brooklyn detention center.