Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala (PCVA)
About the firm
Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala (PCVA) is a personal injury trial firm based in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington, representing clients in catastrophic injury, wrongful death, child sexual abuse, government liability, and civil rights cases. Founding Partner Darrell Cochran has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and Washington Supreme Court, and the firm has recovered over a billion dollars for clients across Washington state and nationwide.
Notable results
A King County jury awarded $165 million to eight former Sky Valley Education Center employees, including the estate of one deceased plaintiff, after finding Pharmacia LLC liable for selling PCB-containing fluorescent light ballasts without adequate warning.
A Pierce County jury awarded William Tisdale $91 million after he was beaten with an aluminum baseball bat outside an APRO-owned Union 76 convenience store in Parkland, Washington, leaving him with multiple skull fractures and permanent cognitive damage.
A King County jury awarded $72 million to two former students of Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Washington, finding Monsanto liable for chronic neurological injuries caused by PCB-containing fluorescent light ballasts installed in the school decades earlier.
A Thurston County jury awarded $57 million to roughly 22,000 live-in home-care providers after finding that Washington's Department of Social and Health Services unlawfully cut their pay through an automatic 15 percent reduction in authorized care hours.
An Essex County jury awarded $30 million against Newark Public Schools and the City of Newark after finding both institutions failed to stop a school aide who sexually abused a student repeatedly from 1991 to 1995, beginning when the child was ten years old.
A Middlesex County jury awarded $25 million (reduced by court cap to $12 million) in the first Child Victims Act case brought to trial against the State of New Jersey, finding the state 99% liable for failing to protect a girl from sexual abuse across three foster placements.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
