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Wash. High Court: Traveling Employee Doctrine Covers Occupational Diseases, Including COVID

The Washington Supreme Court ruled the state's traveling employee doctrine, which guides workers' compensation coverage, also covers occupational diseases, as defined by state law. . . .

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