Mark Gordon
MARK GORDON is a founding partner of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP. He has an international reputation for his expertise in the area of risk management. He has been designated as one of the top 50 attorneys in Pittsburgh by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers for his focus on business litigation and has been included in each edition of The Best Lawyers in America since 1995 for his work in the workers’ compensation field.
Mr. Gordon was selected as a BTI Client Service All-Star for 2009, a designation afforded to only 176 lawyers in the United States. The award was issued by the BTI Consulting Group after surveying corporate counsel at Fortune 1000 companies to identify lawyers who provide superior client service.
Mr. Gordon was instrumental in the creation and development of the firm’s Risk Management Practice Group, which is engaged in the oversight of litigation for the firm’s clients both nationally and offshore.
Mr. Gordon has served on the board of directors of several national group captives, where he provides litigation oversight, risk consultation and litigation services. He has lectured nationally and internationally on the benefits of post-loss risk management, the benefits of captive insurance, litigation controls and other complex risk management issues. He has been published on the financial benefits of litigation oversight.
Mr. Gordon has been called to testify on behalf of the National Council on Compensation Insurance, the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau and the Pennsylvania Coal Mine Rating Bureau on risk exposure. He has also served as an expert for industry in premium disputes.
From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Gordon served as National Counsel for General Electric on its occupational disease litigation. He has represented the insurance industry through the National Counsel on Compensation Insurance before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Recent matters representative of his risk practice include:
- Salvaging an insurer’s A.M. Best ‘A’ Rating through the creation of claims resolution procedures.
- Securing the largest settlement ever reported for a Fortune 500 company arising from alleged errors and omissions committed by an insurer and its third-party administrator.
- Successfully prosecuting insurers for bad faith committed against insureds.
- Lowering the per capita workers’ compensation costs of a national convenience store chain by 40 percent.
- Lowering the casualty insurance costs for a major trucking company by 80 percent.
- Lowering the casualty insurance costs for a major building contractor by 35 percent.
- Lowering the casualty insurance costs for a Fortune 1000 manufacturer by 70 percent.
- Completing a due diligence analysis for a Fortune 1000 company engaged in a multi-billion-dollar acquisition.
- Successfully defending an insurer on allegations of fraud, errors and omissions.
Mr. Gordon has successfully litigated and managed bad faith insurance claims for insurers, corporations and individuals including:
- Securing a defense verdict for a client accused of causing harm to an employee who alleged violations of a specific safety regulation;
- Successfully defending an insurer from bad faith allegations arising out of an excess verdict against the insurance carrier’s insured;
- Securing a $425,000 bad faith recovery from an insurer on a $10,000 policy;
- Securing a $7.2 million recovery from an insurer on a $2 million policy;
- Securing a $10 million recovery from an insurer on a $500,000 policy;
- Securing a $900,000 recovery from an insurer on a $15,000 policy;
- Securing a $4 million recovery from an insured and its insurer with $2 million limits.
Mr. Gordon received his J.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1977 and received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently licensed in Pennsylvania and is admitted to practice before all federal courts in Pennsylvania, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Circuits.