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REESE v. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.

Nos. 52153-1, 51151-9.

107 Wn.2d 563 (1987)

731 P.2d 497

JULIUS REESE, ET AL, Appellants, v. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Respondent. WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP, Appellant, v. COLUMBIA LIGHTING, INC., Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

January 22, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Geisness and Lonnie Davis, for appellants Reese.

Gaither M. Kodis and Stiley & Kodis, P.S., for appellant Beauchamp.

Lee, Smart, Cook, Martin & Patterson, P.S., Inc., by Michael A. Patterson, for respondent Sears.

Charles Matthew Andersen, Beverly L. Anderson, and Winston & Cashatt, for respondent Columbia Lighting.

Charles K. Wiggins, Gary N. Bloom, and Douglass A. North on behalf of Washington Trial Lawyers Association; Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Attorney General, and Winslow Whitman, Assistant; Douglas N. Jewett, City Attorney for the City of Seattle, and M. Colleen Barrett and Susan Rae Sampson, Assistants; and Brian J. Linn, amici curiae for appellants.

Seth R. Dawson, Prosecuting Attorney for Snohomish County, and Marya J. Silvernale, Deputy, amici curiae for respondents.

UTTER, J.

Julius and Betty Reese and William Beauchamp appeal summary judgment dismissals of their employment discrimination claims. Their appeals have been consolidated because they raise an identical question of law: whether the exclusive remedy provision of the Industrial Insurance Act (IIA), RCW 51.04.010, bars employee actions against their employers for disability discrimination under the Law Against Discrimination, RCW 49.60. Reese and Beauchamp argue that...

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