VictimsGuide

A Citizen’s Guide to Auto Insurance and Crash Law

Start Here

WASHINGTON GUIDE 17

Washington Comparative Fault & Crash Liability

Washington uses pure comparative fault, so responsibility can be allocated among multiple actors and a claimant’s recovery can be reduced by the claimant’s percentage of fault rather than automatically barred.

  • Identify every potentially responsible driver, owner, employer, public entity and other actor.
  • Preserve physical, electronic and witness evidence relevant to fault allocation.
  • Separate factual causation from legal allocation of fault.
  • Apply current Washington comparative-fault statutes and controlling decisions.

Source path identified by the Washington master index: https://www.victimsguide.com/wa-comparative-fault. The individual source page was not retrievable in this pass; verify the live guide and current Washington primary authority before publication.