About Linda Bordas
Linda Bordas founded Bordas & Bordas with her husband Jim when she joined his practice upon graduating from law school in 1985. She had previously worked as a hospital pharmacist and immediately applied her background to become one of West Virginia’s most successful medical malpractice attorneys. Linda has obtained numerous major verdicts and handled appeals that have expanded the rights of patients and especially the families of children who were injured or killed as a result of negligence. Linda has handled cases involving orthopedic surgery, internal medicine, surgery, radiation oncology, pediatrics, cardiology, and cancer treatment.
Extraordinary preparation and dedication to protecting her clients is her calling card. Linda’s mission as a litigator is not only to do justice for her seriously injured clients, but also to make our country and our communities a safer place by holding physicians and hospitals to accepted standards of professional practice. Linda is a member of the West Virginia Association for Justice. She is a member of the Board of Governors of that organization.
She is a member of the West Virginia State Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association and the American Association for Justice. Linda has lectured in the areas of medical malpractice and trial practice in general. She has served on the West Virginia University College of Law Visiting Committee.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Bordas & Bordas, PLLC
These results are credited to Bordas & Bordas, PLLC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Johna Ankrom, 52, was shopping with her granddaughter when Wal-Mart employees detained a shoplifter in the vestibule's main traffic aisle. He broke away, collided with her cart and pulled it down on top of her. She suffered traumatic intestinal injuries, went through multiple surgeries, and now lives with a permanent ileostomy.
Lewis Timmons, 61, was transferring hydrogen from his tanker into the storage system at the Muskingum River power plant when the storage area exploded and killed him. The enclosure had a defective roof and undersized copper relief stacks that could not vent a release, and an earlier hydrogen explosion at an AEP facility had already produced safety recommendations the company never acted on.
A woman came to the Wetzel County Hospital emergency room in 2001 and came under the care of a surgeon who, the estate proved, failed to perform the exploratory surgery that would have found and corrected her intra-abdominal condition. She went into shock and died the next day. The jury awarded $4 million. She was paid $1,162,741.60.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
