The Supreme Court of Washington has held that two individual directors of a nonprofit horse rescue organization can be personally liable when the organization causes significant physical damage to property it leases from an owner. The Court has affirmed a trial court decision that the director’s failure to take action when the problems were shown to them amounted to gross negligence and they were not protected by a director protection statute. Horse Harbor rented a farm to care for 15 or 16 abused and abandoned horses. The paid manager failed to manage the property properly, failed to manage the manure, allowed standing water to accumulate in mud puddles, permitted damage to fences and a...