{"id":16159,"date":"2026-06-05T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=16159"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:56:10","slug":"insurance-provider-determines-peterson-case-verdict-will-be-appealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/insurance-provider-determines-peterson-case-verdict-will-be-appealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Provider Determines Peterson Case Verdict will be Appealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cities Insurance Association of Washington (CIAW) has determined an appeal of a jury verdict awarding Yakima resident Mark Peterson $480,000 in damages stemming from a case involving a fire inspection request by the City of Yakima in 2013 is necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CIAW, the City\u2019s insurance provider for this case, is responsible for paying the amount awarded in damages by a Yakima County Superior Court jury in mid-March of this year if the appeal is unsuccessful.&nbsp; The decision to appeal was not made by the City Council or City staff. The decision was made solely by CIAW.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The City satisfied its $100,000 CIAW insurance policy deductible in 2019.&nbsp; Once the deductible was satisfied, all additional costs related to the case were borne by CIAW. According to the City\u2019s policy with CIAW, any decision to appeal a verdict is CIAW\u2019s to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case involves a 2013 request by City fire inspectors to inspect a business Peterson owned in Yakima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Appeal-of-Lawsuit-Verdict-News-Release.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Appeal of Lawsuit Verdict - News Release.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f5128cd2-56b2-4ad6-bec7-38826aeb8dd2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Appeal-of-Lawsuit-Verdict-News-Release.pdf\">Appeal of Lawsuit Verdict &#8211; News Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Appeal-of-Lawsuit-Verdict-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f5128cd2-56b2-4ad6-bec7-38826aeb8dd2\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities Insurance Association of Washington (CIAW) has determined an appeal of a jury verdict awarding Yakima resident Mark Peterson $480,000 in damages stemming from a case involving a fire inspection request by the City of Yakima in 2013 is necessary. CIAW, the City\u2019s insurance provider for this case, is responsible for paying the amount awarded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16161,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16159\/revisions\/16161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}