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WA DOC To Be Part Of State Budget Cuts
By thenewstribune.com
Published: 12/28/2010

Attorney General Rob McKenna says Washington taxpayers pay too much for the negligent acts of their government, and he’s drawing up proposals for the 2011 Legislature that might lower future costs.

Washington paid more than $50 million in judgments and legal settlements in 2009 and that cost is four to 12 times higher than comparably sized states such as Massachusetts, Arizona, Tennessee and Indiana, according to McKenna, a second-term Republican.

McKenna said the state spent another $19 million in legal costs fighting the suits, money he’d rather see spent on needed programs.

“Our liability ought to be in line with other states. Even if we adopted a system like Massachusetts has or Oregon has, we’d be better off,’’ McKenna told The Olympian’s editorial board Monday. Those two states have some limits on liability payouts.

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