Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 18.100 - Professional Service Corporations.
18.100.070 - Professional relationships and liabilities preserved.

RCW 18.100.070
Professional relationships and liabilities preserved.

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be interpreted to abolish, repeal, modify, restrict, or limit the law now in effect in this state applicable to the professional relationship and liabilities between the person furnishing the professional services and the person receiving such professional service and the standards for professional conduct. Any director, officer, shareholder, agent, or employee of a corporation organized under this chapter shall remain personally and fully liable and accountable for any negligent or wrongful acts or misconduct committed by him or her or by any person under his or her direct supervision and control, while rendering professional services on behalf of the corporation to the person for whom such professional services were being rendered. The corporation shall be liable for any negligent or wrongful acts of misconduct committed by any of its directors, officers, shareholders, agents, or employees while they are engaged on behalf of the corporation, in the rendering of professional services.

[ 2011 c 336 § 502; 1969 c 122 § 7.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 18 - Businesses and Professions

Chapter 18.100 - Professional Service Corporations.

18.100.010 - Legislative intent.

18.100.020 - Short title.

18.100.030 - Definitions.

18.100.040 - Application of chapter to previously organized corporations.

18.100.050 - Organization of professional service corporations authorized generally—Architects, engineers, and health care professionals—Nonprofit corporations.

18.100.060 - Rendering of services by authorized individuals.

18.100.065 - Authority of directors, officers to render same services as corporation.

18.100.070 - Professional relationships and liabilities preserved.

18.100.080 - Engaging in other business prohibited—Investments.

18.100.090 - Stock issuance.

18.100.095 - Validity of share voting agreements.

18.100.100 - Legal qualification of officer, shareholder or employee to render professional service, effect.

18.100.110 - Sale or transfer of shares.

18.100.114 - Merger or consolidation.

18.100.116 - Death of shareholder, transfer to ineligible person—Treatment of shares.

18.100.118 - Eligibility of certain representatives and transferees to serve as directors, officers, or shareholders.

18.100.120 - Name—Listing of shareholders.

18.100.130 - Application of Business Corporation Act and Nonprofit Corporation Act.

18.100.132 - Nonprofit professional service corporations formed under prior law.

18.100.133 - Business corporations, election of this chapter.

18.100.134 - Professional services—Deletion from stated purposes of corporation.

18.100.140 - Improper conduct not authorized.

18.100.145 - Doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery—Discrimination prohibited.

18.100.160 - Foreign professional corporation.