Mark Gordon
MARK GORDON is a founding partner of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP, with an international reputation for his expertise in the area of risk management. He has been included in each edition of The Best Lawyers in America since 1995 for his work in the workers’ compensation field. He has been designated one of the Top 50 attorneys in Pittsburgh by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers for his focus on business litigation.
Mr. Gordon was instrumental in the creation and development of the firm’s Risk Management Practice Group, which is nationally engaged in the oversight of litigation for the firm’s clients, and handles litigation and oversight of onshore and offshore captive insurance companies.
Mr. Gordon has served on the board of directors of several national group captives, where he provides litigation services, litigation oversight and risk consultation. In addition, he has been retained as an expert 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.
Mr. Gordon has lectured nationally and internationally on the benefits of post-loss risk management, the benefits of captive insurance companies, litigation controls and other complex risk management issues. He has been published on the financial benefits of litigation oversight.
He has represented the insurance industry through the National Council on Compensation Insurance before the U.S. Supreme Court.
From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Gordon served as National Counsel for General Electric on its occupational disease litigation.
Recent matters representative of his practice include:
- Salvaging an insurer’s A.M. Best ‘A’ rating through the creation of claims resolution procedures.
- 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, major building contractor and major manufacturer by 30-70 percent.
- Completing a due diligence analysis for a Fortune 1000 company engaged in a multi-billion-dollar acquisition.
Mr. Gordon received his J.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1977. 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 Eight Circuits.