Pamela Borgess | Toledo Personal Injury Lawyer

Attorney Pamela A. Borgess, the founder and managing attorney of Borgess Law, is an experienced and respected trial attorney who aggressively handles civil (non-criminal) disputes and litigation, including personal injury, defective medical drugs/devices or recalled consumer products, car & truck accidents, wrongful death, product liability, nursing home litigation, and contract/business disputes.

She has extensive experience with numerous national high-profile cases, such as the national litigation involving a contaminated drug, Heparin, which claimed the lives of hundreds of people after being manufactured in an uninspected overseas facility. The case was featured in national news media, such as TIME magazine, CNN, Bloomberg and ABC News.

Borgess Law was founded on the principle that serving individuals is an honor and privilege and that clients should be treated with dignity, professionalism and respect.  At Borgess Law, we believe that seemingly opportunistic, “ambulance-chasing” attorneys who appear more interested in exploiting their clients’ injuries or legal problems than helping the clients overcome them, bring shame and dishonor to our profession and do a disservice to the clients. We seek to bring a higher level of professionalism, ethics and quality of legal services that are client-centered and results-driven. We only represents people with real injuries or legal problems.

Borgess Law never charges a fee for an initial consultation. If your legal matter is not one that we handle, we will help you find an attorney who does.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Founding Attorney	Borgess Law, LLC	Toledo, OH	Present

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
University of Toledo College of Law	J.D.	Law School	2000
Bowling Green State University	Bachelors		1997

State / Court	Date
United States District Court, Central District of Illinois	2015
United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois	2014
United States District Court, Southern District of Illinois	2013
United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio	2006
United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit	2001
Ohio	2000
United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio	2000

• Ohio State Bar Foundation | Fellow | 2015 - Present
  Lucas County CASA Program | Pro Bono Volunteer | 2014 - Present
  Ohio Super Lawyer
  Toledo Bar Association | Member
  Association of Trial Lawyers of America | Member
  Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers | Member
  Ohio State Bar Association | Member
  American Bar Association | Member
  Chair of the Lucas County Access to Justice Awards Steering Committee I 2015-2016
  Chair Toledo Bar Association’s Lawyer/Doctor Committee I 2007
  

• With over two decades of experience, Ms. Borgess has been involved with numerous national high-profile cases.  For example, Ms. Borgess received national attention when she was the first attorney to file suit regarding the tainted drug, Heparin, which was manufactured by a U.S. drug company at an uninspected facility in China and took the lives of hundreds of innocent Americans in late 2007 and early 2008.  In April of 2008, she was honored to have three of her clients speak before Congress at an investigational hearing entitled, “The Heparin Disaster: Chinese Counterfeits and American Failures.”  Their stories have been featured in various news media, including, but not limited to, ABC Nightly News, Nightline, Time Magazine, CNN and Bloomberg News. As a result of her work in contaminated Heparin litigation, Ms. Borgess was appointed a top leadership position in In re Heparin Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1953 and helped lead the litigation against Baxter, SPL and other Defendants.
  
  Attorney Borgess has also been involved with many other national litigations/mass torts/class actions including litigation involving Yasmin/Yaz®, Syngenta GMO corn, Actos®, Benicar®, DePuy ASR® Hips, Granuflo®, Lipitor®, Force Placed Insurance, Ford Crown Victoria, Power Morcellators, SSRI Antidepressants, Small Smiles Dentistry, Stryker Hip Implants, antitrust litigation, Testosterone, Transvaginal Mesh, Zimmer Knees, Xarelto®, Implanon®, Mirena®, Vioxx®, Zofran®, and Depakote®.
  
  As a result of this extensive experience, Ms. Borgess is well-versed in all aspects of civil litigation, from the early stages of data collection and review, to depositions, Daubert hearings, trial and appeals. Attorney Borgess also has an understanding of complex medicolegal issues, including, but not limited to, understanding and simplifying complicated mechanisms of injury and successfully establishing generic and case-specific causation in mass torts.  Her experience has involved many disciplines, including pharmacology, pathology, epidemiology, immunology and biochemistry.  Her knowledge and experience in civil litigation has proved invaluable, allowing her to obtain sizable settlements and verdicts for thousands of clients locally and throughout the country.
  
  In light of her knowledge and experience, Ms. Borgess has been repeatedly invited to speak on the Heparin litigation and other topics at the annual national conventions held by the American Association for Justice (“AAJ”) and Mass Torts Made Perfect.  In 2009, AAJ honored Ms. Borgess by asking her to act as moderator for their annual “Litigating Toxic Tort, Pharmaceutical and Medical Cases” seminar.  She has also been invited to speak at multiple legal and medical seminars on a variety of legal or medicolegal topics.

• DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., ASR Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation MDL 2197
  DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., ASR Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation MDL 2197

• Yasmin and Yaz (Drospirenone) Product Liability MDL 2100
  

• Heparin Products Liability Litigation MDL Docket No. 1953
  

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Verified Credentials	Date Verified
(2000) Licensed as Attorney in Ohio. Verified with Ohio State Bar Association.	October 23, 2020

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