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Wash. Rev. Code § 51.52.160 (2026)

Publication and indexing of significant decisions

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The board shall publish and index its significant decisions and make them available to the public at reasonable cost.
[ 1985 c 209 s 1.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 10 cases, 2005–2020 · leading case: O'Keefe v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 109 P.3d 484 (Wash. Ct. App. 2005).
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O'Keefe v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 109 P.3d 484 (Wash. Ct. App. 2005). “O’Keefe stopped performing it because Woodinville fired him for misconduct.”
Dep't of Labor & Indus. v. Shirley, 288 P.3d 390 (Wash. Ct. App. 2012). “¶26 Board decisions addressing fact patterns similar to Mr. Shirley’s have applied multiple proximate cause analysis to find coverage.”
Stone v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 289 P.3d 720 (Wash. Ct. App. 2012). “RCW 51.52.160. Rogers, 151 Wn. App. at 183 n.”
Robbins v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 349 P.3d 59 (Wash. Ct. App. 2015). “RCW 51.52.160. While the Board’s interpretation of the Industrial Insurance Act, Title 51 RCW, is not binding on this court, it is entitled to great deference.”
Clark Cnty., Res./cross-appellants v. Jennifer Maphet, App./cross (Wash. Ct. App. 2019). · cites it 2× “5 RCW 51.52.160: “The board shall publish and index its significant decisions and make them available to the public at reasonable cost.”
M.A. Mortenson Co. v. Kurt R. Fowler (Wash. Ct. App. 2016). “RCW 51.52.160. "It is appropriate for this court to consider the [the Board's] interpretation of the laws it is charged with enforcing, in addition to relevant case law.”
1 Up Floors Llc v. Dep't Of Labor & Indus. (Wash. Ct. App. 2020). “”). Also, this inhalation-based argument ignores the other routes of exposure: absorption and ingestion, which may still be possible even when exposure by inhalation is not.”
Shawn L. Robbins v. Dept. of Labor & Indus. (Wash. Ct. App. 2015). “RCW 51.52.160. While the Board's interpretation of the Industrial Insurance Act, Title 51 RCW, is not binding on this court, it is entitled to great deference.”
Dep't of Labor & Indus. v. Janssen, 125 Wash. App. 461 (Wash. Ct. App. 2005). “RCW 51.52.160. We consider the decisions persuasive but not binding authority.”
Janssen v. State Dept. of Labor & Indus., 105 P.3d 431 (Wash. Ct. App. 2005). “RCW 51.52.160. We consider the decisions persuasive but not binding authority.”
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