About Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson started his legal career as an insurance defense attorney. He spent the first 20 years of his practice defending medical malpractice cases across Western Pennsylvania. He also defended employers in a variety of employment matters. Tom began representing injured people and employees who were wrongfully fired or discriminated against in 2015.
Tom now focuses his practice on helping individuals who have been injured or discriminated against in violation of state and federal laws. Tom focuses his practice on employment law, personal injury, medical malpractice, premises liability, and commercial law. Tom has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America, which highlights the top 5% of practicing lawyers in the United States. He has also been recognized repeatedly in Best Lawyers in Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh.
Tom has also been selected numerous times as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer. Tom is a Fellow of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, a distinction limited to a specific number of selected trial attorneys in Allegheny County. Tom has tried many jury trials involving very serious personal injury claims, catastrophic damages, and high exposure employment actions in both state and federal courts. Tom is active in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he lives, and is a member of the Westmoreland County Bar Association and The Ned J. Nakles American Inn of Court.
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.
