Wash. Court Finds Suit Against Limited Liability Company Untimely

SEATTLE - A Washington state appellate court has ruled that a limited liability company's "effective date of dissolution" is the date of its administrative dissolution, making any suit filed more than three years after that date untimely. Serrano on California Condominium Homeowners Association v. First Pacific Development Ltd., et al., No. 59998-4-1 (Wash. Ct. App.).

In a published opinion on March 17, the Court of Appeals rejected a general contractor's argument that because the relevant law gave a defendant waterproofing company two years in which to wind up its affairs, the "effective date of dissolution" occurred two years after the …