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About Ian Bauer
Ian Bauer represents vulnerable children, developmentally disabled adults, the elderly, and others who are victims of severe abuse or neglect. Before entering private practice, Ian spent time as a lawyer in the Washington State Attorney General's Office defending state agencies against the same type of abuse and neglect cases he now handles for plaintiffs, giving him unique insight into how institutional defendants operate. He has been selected by LawDragon as one of the nation's Leading Plaintiffs Lawyers (2022-2024), listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2024-2025) for Personal Injury Litigation, holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review rating, and is a National Trial Lawyers Top 100 member. Ian is admitted in Washington, Oregon, New York, California, the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala (PCVA)
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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.
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