( November 5, 2026, 12:56 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — A Washington appellate court affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment and dismissal of an estate’s claims for wrongful death, lost chance of survival and violation of the Abuse of Vulnerable Adults Act (AVAA), finding that no genuine issue of material fact existed regarding causation as to the decedent contracting COVID-19 because the estate conceded that it could not prove that a physician at a rehabilitation facility directly transmitted COVID-19 to the decedent....