(June 8, 2020, 10:08 AM EDT) -- OLYMPIA, Wash. — An insurer failed to sufficiently show that Washington’s rules of professional conduct bar a law firm that previously represented the insurer in bad faith lawsuits from representing insureds in a similar action against the insurer because such representation would cause the insurer a “substantial risk,” the Washington Supreme Court ruled in a May 21 en banc opinion (Richard Plein, et al. v. USAA Casualty Insurance Co., et al., No. 97563-9, Wash. Sup., 2020 Wash. LEXIS 292)....