About Christopher Love
Christopher (Chris) Love focuses on appeals in state and federal courts, class action litigation, and complex trial-level litigation throughout Washington. He pushes the limits of the law to secure justice for the injured and victimized, and provides appellate consultation for other law firms in multi-million-dollar matters. Chris secured the Washington Supreme Court's landmark decision in W.H. v. Olympia School District holding that school districts are strictly liable for employees' sexual abuse of students under the Washington Law Against Discrimination, and successfully defended on appeal a $1.45 million verdict against the Olympia School District. He served as judicial law clerk for seven different Washington Court of Appeals, Division III judges from 2009 to 2013. Chris is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2024-2025) for Personal Injury Litigation and has been selected to Thomson Reuters Washington Super Lawyers since 2023.
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.
