About Richard Monahan
Richard (“Rick”) A. Monahan has been representing West Virginia citizens and consumers for more than 28 years. Rick entered private practice representing civil plaintiffs in 1993 after serving a three-year clerkship with the late, Honorable Elizabeth V. Hallanan, United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia. Among his successful trials, he has obtained verdicts and judgments of $3.9 Million in a wrongful death action arising from a motor vehicle collision and $2.5 Million in a retaliatory discharge case. He has also worked in complex litigation, including substantially contributing to class actions involving natural gas rights, product liability claims involving defective drugs, and other consumer claims resulting in verdicts or settlements in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Rick is also known for his extensive appellate work. In addition to his involvement in numerous appeals before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, he also fully briefed and argued a case before the United States Supreme Court, resulting in a unanimous decision in favor of West Virginia class actions plaintiffs in Smith v. Bayer Corp., 564 U.S. 299 (2011). Rick was selected as Appellate Lawyer of the Week for his argument in that case by The National Law Journal. Rick has been admitted to the practice of law in both West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
He currently is licensed to practice before all West Virginia state and federal courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Eighth Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. He is currently a member of the West Virginia Association of Justice and the American Association of Justice. He has served on the Board of Governors for the West Virginia Association for Justice since 2005. Based upon his achievements and experience, Rick has received the highest rating, an AV® rating, offered by Martindale-Hubbell.
He has been selected as a West Virginia Super Lawyer. He has also been named a Top 100 Trial Attorney for plaintiff civil litigation by The National Trial Lawyers as well as a Top 25 Attorney in Class Actions and Product Liability Actions by such Association. Additionally, The National Association of Distinguished Counsel has named him among the Nation’s Top One Percent of attorneys.
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.
