In 2008, Michael Gilmore, then of Port Hadlock, was stopped at a traffic light on Haines Place waiting to turn left onto State Route 20 when his work van was rear-ended by a Jefferson Transit bus.

Gilmore sued Jefferson Transit and in 2015 was awarded $1.2 million.

Jefferson Transit asked for a new trial. That request was denied.

Jefferson Transit appealed, and in 2017 the original award was reversed by the state Court of Appeals which found that the trial court had improperly excluded evidence from an expert witness who said the collision was too minor to have caused Gilmore’s injuries, and evidence that Gilmore’s financial condition was not as dire as claimed after the accident.

That decision was subsequently reversed by the state Supreme Court on April 18, 2018, Case # No. 94559-4.

The Supreme Court found that the decision denying Jefferson Transit’s request for a retrial was justified, and that the court of appeals had erred in its reversal off of the original award.

Gilmore prevailed.

On Monday, Dec. 4, we received online contact  from Gilmore who asked why The Leader had never published a story on his victory over Jefferson Transit in the Washington Supreme Court. We searched our archives and found no story about Gilmore’s final victory. Assuming we had been notified, that was an oversight at the time, especially given earlier coverage. The story deserved publication.