{"id":151277,"date":"2026-05-15T13:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=151277"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:55:52","slug":"report-sex-abuse-storage-fire-drove-last-years-80-jump-in-seattle-tort-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/15\/report-sex-abuse-storage-fire-drove-last-years-80-jump-in-seattle-tort-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Sex Abuse, Storage Fire Drove Last Year’s 80% Jump in Seattle Tort Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

A report this week from Lex Machina, a division of LexisNexis, found 2,698 tort actions filed in King County Superior Court in 2025 were associated with “non-traditional” torts, such as sex abuse cases against the Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families and a local gynecologist.<\/p>\n

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A report this week from Lex Machina, a division of LexisNexis, found 2,698 tort actions filed in King County Superior Court in 2025 were associated with “non-traditional” torts, such as sex abuse cases against the Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families and a local gynecologist.<\/p>\n

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A report this week from Lex Machina, a division of LexisNexis, found 2,698 tort actions filed in King County Superior Court in 2025 were associated with “non-traditional” torts, such as sex abuse cases against the Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families and a local gynecologist. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A report this week from Lex Machina, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/legal-news-V56nm0.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151281,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151277\/revisions\/151281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}