Hospital Can't Privately Contact Ex-Docs, Wash. Justices Rule

By Ben Adlin · October 1, 2026, 8:39 PM EDT

Washington's Supreme Court split 6-3 Thursday in ruling that Virginia Mason Medical Center improperly engaged in private communications with a malpractice plaintiff's treating doctors by failing to go through formal discovery...

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