What happened to you at Kaiser Salmon Creek was not okay, and it was never yours to carry.

Kaiser Permanente's Salmon Creek Medical Office, on NE 20th Avenue in Vancouver. For years the pediatrician a lot of Clark County families saw there was Dr. Michael Wilmington, and six lawsuits now sitting in King County Superior Court say Kaiser was told about him, more than once, starting in 2006. He was never tried for anything. A Clark County judge signed a warrant for his arrest, and the next day, May 2, 2026, he was dead. Kaiser isn't going anywhere. If you were a kid on his patient list, or your child was, and one appointment has never sat right with you, then yes. This is about you.

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This applies to you no matter what

You thought it was an exam. The complaints say that was the design: a sports physical, a lymph-node check, a 'safety check' with the parent sent out of the room. A child has no idea what a normal exam is.
You never told a soul. Nothing here depends on whether you spoke up at the time. Most people who've come forward since May had never said a word to anyone at Kaiser.
Your mother, or someone's, did complain to Kaiser, and nothing came of it. That's the story the lawsuits tell, six separate times over fifteen years (2006, 2010, 2014, 2019, 2020, 2021), and in one of them a mother says the medical assistant's whole answer to her was 'Yeah, he is like that.' Nothing happened after that one either, the complaint says.
You're the parent, and your child was his patient. The 'I'm asking for my child' option in the questions is for you. You answer them. Nothing is asked of your child, now or later.
You were seen as a teenager, or you were four. A pediatric panel runs from newborns through high-school sports physicals. The age matters for the deadline, not for whether you belong here.
You live in Oregon now, or Idaho, or three time zones away. The visits happened in Vancouver, Washington; that is what a Washington court looks at, not your address today.

The Kaiser Salmon Creek record: what is public, and when

None of what follows is ours. It comes from the Vancouver Police Department, from six complaints filed in King County Superior Court, from Kaiser Permanente's own statements and from the reporters who covered them, and every line links to where it came from. One thing we say exactly: Dr. Wilmington was never arraigned, never tried and never convicted of anything. A warrant is an accusation, and his was never tested. Everything pleaded against Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest and Northwest Permanente, P.C. is an allegation, and Kaiser has not admitted liability.

2006 through 2021

Six complaints to Kaiser, as the lawsuits describe them. 2006: a mother reported that during a sports physical he pulled down her daughter's underwear without warning. 2010: a mother reported a 'slow' vaginal 'exam' on her minor daughter to a Kaiser nurse and a second Salmon Creek physician; no action was taken, the complaint says. 2014: a mother reported he examined her 12-year-old alone and tried to pull down her underwear. 2019: several complaints from a mother after he insisted she leave the room. 2020: a guardian reported he suggested a child who had already been abused should shadow him and see other children undressed. 2021: a mother came back into the room to find her daughter holding a bottle of lubricant; when she reported it, the medical assistant's answer, the complaint says, was 'Yeah, he is like that.' None of it, the plaintiffs allege, was ever reported outside Kaiser. Counsel's announcement of the June 29, 2026 complaints, listing the six reports.

February to April 30, 2026

Vancouver police opened an investigation in February 2026 on a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about child sexual abuse material traced to a Vancouver IP address. It led first to another man, arrested April 29, then to the pediatrician police said he was associated with. On April 30 detectives searched Dr. Wilmington's home in La Center. The same day, Kaiser says, it ended his employment, his privileges and his access to every facility and system. Vancouver Police Department release, updated May 12, 2026.

May 1 and 2, 2026

On May 1, police say they received additional information about a child being molested at his home, and a felony warrant for first-degree child molestation was issued. Police also said he had hosted naked sleepovers with young children at the La Center house. On Saturday, May 2, he was found dead in Lewis County, an apparent suicide. The criminal case ended there: never booked, never arraigned, never tried. Nothing in that warrant was ever proven. Vancouver Police Department release, May 4, 2026.

May 5, 2026

Kaiser Permanente's statement: it was contacting every current and former patient who'd been under his care, moving them to other physicians, opening a dedicated phone line, and (its words) its primary concern was for anyone affected by his actions. By then a Seattle firm said multiple people had already called it. A week on, the reported count was at least 50. KATU, May 5, 2026.

May 11, 2026

The first lawsuit. A former patient, filing as Jane Doe, sued Kaiser in King County Superior Court. She alleges he abused her repeatedly from about 2000 to 2006 at the Salmon Creek Medical Office, through genital and breast exams done without gloves or a chaperone, unnecessary nudity and sexually explicit material, and that Kaiser knew or should have known he was a danger to its child patients. And her filing reaches back further than her own visits. It points to a parent who'd told Kaiser he kept inviting children to his home, to a guardian who'd gone to management about three years earlier, to a mother who'd reported an invasive sports physical nearly twenty years earlier. Counsel's announcement of the first complaint, May 11, 2026.

May 15, 2026

About two weeks after the search, Kaiser Permanente said it had brought in an outside party to look into the claims that the late pediatrician sexually abused patients in its care. Who, exactly, came later: Helen Cantwell, of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, would lead it. The Columbian, May 15, 2026.

June 29, 2026

Five more lawsuits, filed together on a Monday in King County Superior Court. Defendants: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest, Northwest Permanente, P.C., and his estate. Five former patients, each a Jane Doe, each alleging Kaiser ignored complaints and red flags while he used his role as a pediatrician to abuse them. Jane Doe 5 says her mother reported him to a Kaiser nurse and a Kaiser physician about sixteen years ago and nothing happened. Six suits in all. The Columbian, June 29, 2026.

July 1, 2026

Kaiser's statement: it is committed to fully understanding the facts, and caring for children is among the most profound responsibilities it holds, resting on trust. The plaintiffs' lawyer, Jason Amala, said more than 100 people had come forward and the firm was hearing from dozens and dozens more. That is counsel's count, not a court's. Kaiser has not admitted liability in any of the six cases. OPB, July 1, 2026.

We checked this on September 12, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from July 1, 2026. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.

Who can be held responsible in a Kaiser Salmon Creek lawsuit

Not the doctor, or not mainly. He is dead; his estate is a defendant in name more than in fact. The cases that matter are against Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest and Northwest Permanente, P.C., the two Kaiser entities that ran the Salmon Creek office, employed him, credentialed him and, according to the six complaints, heard about him from parents at least six times over fifteen years. A clinic owes a child a safe exam room. The claim is that Kaiser was warned and did not provide one, and that it never reported what it was told to anyone outside the building.

That is the whole theory, in plain words: negligent supervision, negligent retention, a failure to act on complaints. It is not a malpractice case about a treatment decision, and the difference matters in Washington, for the deadline and for how the case is pleaded. A lawyer will read the six complaints next to your own dates. The parents who called Kaiser in 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019, 2020 and 2021 are, if the allegations hold, the witnesses to what Kaiser knew.

Kaiser has no bankruptcy and none coming. Washington puts no cap on what a jury can award for pain and suffering; the state's Supreme Court struck the cap down in 1989. Kaiser is a private health system, so there is no notice-of-claim form to file first and no government-immunity rule. It has hired an outside law firm to investigate itself; that report, when it comes, will be Kaiser's own document, and a lawyer will read it too.

Your deadline: Washington's RCW 4.16.340, and why your birth year is the first question

Washington's rule for a childhood claim is RCW 4.16.340, and it has three clocks, not one. Three years from the act; or three years from when you discovered, or reasonably should have, that an injury was caused by it; or three years from when you discovered the act caused the injury you're suing over. Whichever is latest. None of the three starts while you're a child, either; the statute holds all of them until you turn eighteen. Which is why the questions ask your birth year: born in 2006 or later, and the plain three-years-from-eighteen route may still be open to you on its own. Born in 2005, it comes down to the month, a calendar question a lawyer answers in one call.

Now the honest part, for everyone born in 2005 or earlier. Your three years from eighteen have run. What is left is the discovery route, and here the facts are unusual: nobody outside a few families knew any of this until Vancouver police went public in May 2026, and many former patients only understood what an appointment was when they read the news. The complaints are pleaded that way. A defendant will argue the other side, that anyone who knew something was wrong at the time had a clock running from the act. Which reading wins turns on your own dates and what you knew, person by person, not for the group. That is not a reason to wait. It is the reason to have a lawyer look at your dates now.

Two things you may have read that are not true here. Washington did remove the time limit for childhood sexual abuse in 2024, but that change, House Bill 1618, applies only to abuse on or after June 6, 2024, and every date in these complaints is earlier. And Washington has not opened a look-back window for older claims the way some states have; there is no one-time filing period to catch. So the deadline is the statute above, read against your birth year and your discovery. Nobody can promise you how a court reads it. Just the law as it stands, and a lawyer who works these cases reading it with you.

Your situation still qualifies even if

You never told anyone. Not a parent or a partner, not even a friend.
You still can't say whether it was a real exam or something else. The complaints describe that exact confusion. A lawyer sorts it out with you; you don't have to first.
Your parent was in the waiting room, or was asked to step out. That is the pattern the complaints describe.
You kept going back to him for years. Plenty of families did; he was the pediatrician they were assigned.
You got Kaiser's letter or call in May 2026 and did nothing with it. That was Kaiser's outreach. A lawsuit is a different door.
You saw him at a different Kaiser office, or can't recall which one. Say so in the questions; the employer is the same.

Facilities covered

Kaiser Permanente Salmon Creek Medical Office, 14406 NE 20th Avenue, Vancouver, Washington 98686, where the six complaints place the visits · any other Kaiser Permanente Northwest clinic or hospital in Clark County or the Portland area where you or your child saw him, since the employer, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest and Northwest Permanente, P.C., is the same. Different Kaiser office? Different doctor there? The questions still work. Answer them and say where.

Questions people are asking

Can I still sue Kaiser Permanente over the Salmon Creek pediatrician?

Six former patients have, in King County Superior Court, one in May 2026 and five on June 29, 2026. Whether you can depends on Washington's childhood-abuse statute, RCW 4.16.340: three years from your eighteenth birthday, or three years from discovering the harm. Born in 2005 or later, the first route may still be open on its own; older than that, it turns on discovery, and a lawyer has to look at your dates.

What did Kaiser know about complaints against him?

Kaiser's own account is that it ended his employment on April 30, 2026, the day police searched his home, and that it's brought in Debevoise & Plimpton to investigate. The six complaints tell a much longer story. In them, parents and a guardian report him to a nurse, to a second physician, to a medical assistant, to management, six reports across fifteen years (the record above walks through each one), and every time, they say, nothing was done. Kaiser admits none of it. What Kaiser knew is what a jury would decide.

Is there a Kaiser settlement or fund I can join?

No. As of September 2026 there is no settlement, no fund and no claims process in any of the six cases. Kaiser's May 2026 outreach to former patients was a notice and a phone line, not an offer. A new claim would be your own, and we won't put a number on it.

My child was his patient. Can I do this for them?

Yes. Pick 'I'm asking for my child' on the first question and the rest are asked of you, not your child. A minor's claim goes through a parent or guardian, and for anyone still under 18 the RCW 4.16.340 clock hasn't started at all.

What does a lawyer cost for a case like this?

Here, nothing. Every case is on contingency. The lawyer is paid only out of what is recovered, and if nothing is recovered you owe nothing. Not for the call, not for the review, not for the case.

Was Dr. Wilmington convicted?

No, and now he never will be. What existed was a felony arrest warrant for first-degree child molestation, signed May 1, 2026, and by the next day he'd been found dead in Lewis County. A warrant isn't a verdict. Nobody booked him, nobody arraigned him, no jury heard a word of it, so it stays what it was, an accusation. The civil cases are a different thing, against Kaiser, and those are allegations too.

Who sees your form

Kerim Eravci · Survivor Advocate · Not a lawyer

I was a victim, and I waited. Not because I didn't know what happened to me (I knew every day), but because I'd decided it was over, mine to carry, nobody's business. When I finally went looking for a lawyer, the answer came back in two words I'd never thought about: statute of limitations. My time had run out while I was busy getting through it.

What that has cost me since is a long story, and I'll tell you the whole thing in private, if you want it. The short version is the reason my name is on this page: I'm here to help people do what I wish I'd done, which is find out where you stand while the door's still open.

I'm not a lawyer. I read what you send, I call you once, on your terms, and nothing gets filed unless you say so. Ask sooner than I did.

Kerim Eravci is not an attorney. He's a survivor.

What happens next. Three steps, nothing more until you say so.

You answer 6 questions. Nothing is filed. Nothing starts.
A survivor calls you, once. Not a robot, not a call center. Someone who has been where you are.
You decide. You find out your options. If you want to stop there, you stop there.

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