About Mike Prascik
Mike has practiced law for over 20 years in West Virginia and jurisdictions across the country. He has spent the majority of his career representing individuals hurt by defective products and workplace conditions, but has also handled various other types of civil litigation on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. Mike also spent several years as the supervising attorney for a regional office of a large nonprofit public interest law firm, where he was part of a team providing legal services and community outreach for the benefit of low-income West Virginians, domestic violence survivors, individuals experiencing homelessness, and senior citizens. Mike is admitted to practice in West Virginia state courts and the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia.
He has also been admitted to practice in individual cases in over a dozen states and nearly 20 federal jurisdictions. He attended West Virginia University and the WVU College of Law, where he served as a Legal Research & Writing teaching assistant. He remains a member of the West Virginia University Alumni Association and the Mountaineer Athletic Club.
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.
