About Bridget Grotz
Bridget Grotz chose law to empower injured people and help them obtain justice. Before law school she served as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching reading to primary school students in Samoa. Bridget represents clients in child sexual abuse cases, car accidents, catastrophic injuries, medical malpractice, and wrongful death, often handling complex multi-defendant cases involving group home entities.
She clerked for the Honorable Jill Johanson and the Honorable Anne Cruser at the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division II, from 2018 to 2019. Bridget served on the Tacoma Pierce County Bar Association's New and Young Lawyers Board and co-chairs Pierce County Washington Women Lawyers. She was admitted to the Washington bar in 2019.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala (PCVA)
These results are credited to Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala (PCVA). A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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 Sky Valley Education Center students who developed chronic neurological injuries after years of PCB exposure from aging fluorescent light fixtures manufactured by Monsanto.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.