# Jain v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

> Washington Supreme Court · November 27, 1996 · 130 Wash. 2d 688

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4711118

## Case

- **Full name:** Certification From the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington in Sungeeta Jain v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- **Court:** Washington Supreme Court
- **Decided:** November 27, 1996
- **Citations:** 130 Wash. 2d 688; 926 P.2d 923; 1996 Wash. LEXIS 715
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Guy
- **Judges:** Durham, Guy, Sanders
- **Cited by:** 19 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Guy, J.
(concurring) — The federal court has asked us to answer the question whether the holding in the Tissell 5 case should, under the opinion in the Bradbury 6 case, be applied retroactively to void a release. I agree with the majority that the holding in Bradbury does mandate that result. We, thus, answer the certified question as to the present status of our decisional law. I do have reservations, however, as to whether Bradbury should continue to be the law of Washington. Were that issue squarely before *698 us in a case where opposing litigants had a complete opportunity to litigate the wisdom of the Bradbury decision, I would reevaluate this Court’s decision whether an otherwise valid release or settlement agreement should be voided by the retroactive application of decisional law.
Alexander, J., concurs with Gxjy, J.
Tissell v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 115 Wn.2d 107 , 795 P.2d 126 (1990).
Bradbury v. Aetna Casualty & Sur. Co., 91 Wn.2d 504 , 589 P.2d 785 (1979).

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