When Initiative 124 passed, it attracted two lawsuits: one that tried to invalidate the entire bill, and another that attacked only one part: the requirement that hotel employers purchase health insurance for their employees. Last summer, facing an almost certain loss in the courts, Council member Mosqueda led an effort that repealed I-124 and replaced it with four separate, modified bills that she hoped would resolve the legal challenges in the two cases. But as expected today the plaintiff in the second case, ERIC, filed an updated complaint arguing that the rewritten bill requiring employers to provide healthcase, still violates federal law.
Today the Washington State Department of Health confirmed a case of the Wuhan coronavirus in a patient in Everett, the first confirmed case in the United States. It’s still early days, but here’s what’s known so far about the Wuhan coronavirus.
