WASHINGTON’S COMPARATIVE NEGLIGENCE
What is Comparative Negligence? Washington law, for many years, followed a strict contributory negligence rule that barred the plaintiff from recovering anything if contributory negligence to any degree was proven. Our law changed to one of comparative negligence as set out in RCW 4.22.005 “Effect of Contributory Fault” which provides: “In an action based on fault seeking to recover damages for injury or death to person or harm to property, any contributory fault chargeable to the claimant diminishes proportionately the…