About Kevin Hastings

Kevin Hastings is a trial attorney in Seattle who dedicates his practice to personal injury, group home sexual abuse, government liability, wrongful death, class actions, bad faith insurance law, and civil rights. A northwest native from a family of commercial fishermen, Kevin was inspired to become a lawyer when his uncle suffered a catastrophic injury while fishing in the Bering Sea. He began his legal career as a judicial law clerk for Judge C.C. Bridgewater and Judge Jill Johanson at the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division II. Kevin is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2024-2025) for Personal Injury Litigation, holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review rating, and was selected to Thomson Reuters Washington Super Lawyers Rising Stars from 2013 to 2022.

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.

$165 millionVerdictTop 20 in Washington · #4

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.

King County Superior Court, Washington · 2023Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$91 millionVerdict

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.

Pierce County Superior Court, Washington · 2021Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$72 millionVerdictTop 20 in Washington · #10

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.

King County Superior Court, Seattle, WA · 2023Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$57 millionVerdict

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.

Thurston County Superior Court, Washington · 2010Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$30 millionVerdictTop 20 in New Jersey · #7

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.

Essex County Superior Court, Newark, New Jersey · 2026Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Seattle University School of Law
J.D., 2009
University of Washington
Undergraduate, 2005

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Washington
State Bar of Oregon

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$111 million · King County Verdict Holds Two Crane Companies to $111 Million for the South Lake Union Collapse
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$438 million · Jury's $857 Million PCB Verdict for Sky Valley School Students and Parents
Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore
Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore
$123 Million Verdict for Aurora Bridge Duck Boat Crash, Largest Non-Punitive PI Verdict in Washington
Budge & Heipt, PLLC
Budge & Heipt, PLLC
$25 million · Federal Jury Awards $25 Million to Jail Detainee Over an Untreated Blood Clot That Cost Him His Leg
Schroeter Goldmark & Bender
Schroeter Goldmark & Bender
$16.67 million · King County's Largest Asbestos Verdict: $16.67 Million for Camas Paper Mill Worker's Family

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.