Widow Can't Pursue Benefits for Worker's Out-of-State Death

The Washington Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker’s widow could not pursue benefits from his employer for his out-of-state death. Case: Perez v. Department of Labor & Industries, No. 84864-0-I, 12/04/2023, unpublished. Facts: Julian Perez Ortega worked for Digital Control Inc., a Washington corporation headquartered in Kent that engineers and manufactures electronic guidance systems for horizontal directional drilling. When Perez Ortega started at DCI in 1998, he signed an employment agreement that provided that it is governed by the laws of the S...