Giner, A. Silvana

CHRIS REGAN'S practice focuses on Bordas & Bordas, PLLC's complex litigation matters, including cases of insurance bad faith, trucking wrecks, wrongful death, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, and professional negligence. Chris has obtained substantial jury verdicts in each of these practice areas, including several verdicts that included punitive damages. Chris also maintains a significant appellate practice, handling cases in the Supreme Court of the United States of America, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Ohio, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and the Ohio Courts of Appeal. Chris is also involved in the firm's toxic tort, class action and consumer fraud practice areas, including cases like Lightner v. Citifinancial and Robinson v. Columbian Chemicals.

Notable verdicts in Chris' cases include McLaughlin v. Ohio Power Company, (2011, $5,710,000.00, plus attorney's fees), Karpacs v. Murthy (2008, $4,000,000.00) and Boggs v. Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital (2006, $6,545,000.00), all tried with Geoff Brown, as well as Meredith v. Heartland of Clarksburg (2002, $50,000,000.00), tried with Jim Bordas. The Boggs award was later increased by approximately $1,400,000.00 through an award of litigation sanctions against Camden-Clark Hospital. In 2009, in Brooke County West Virginia, Chris, Geoff Brown and Jamie Bordas selected a jury in the case of Haught v. Weirton Medical Center, and following jury selection, Weirton Medical Center elected to confess judgment in open court for $2,060,000.00 rather than face trial. Crystal Rogerson and David Haught, the clients in that case, later received the Advocate for Justice Award for their determination to obtain a public settlement from the hospital. 

Chris has also argued frequently before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in cases such as State ex rel. Allstate v. Madden, Boggs v. Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital and State ex rel. Erie Property and Casualty Co. v. Mazzone. Chris has also authored amicus curiae briefs for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on behalf of the Petitioners in Riggs v. WVU Hospital and Brown v. Genesis Health Care.

One of Chris' cases involving much more than any monetary award was resolved in 2004: Mary Jo Stefanakis v. Office of Personnel Management resulted in an order that the federal government reconsider its decision to deny a life-saving allogeneic bone marrow transplant to a Pittsburgh woman. Chris represented Mrs. Stefanakis and her husband at the preliminary injunction hearing that resulted in a Good Friday decision that her insurance company should pay. Mrs. Stefanakis, who had been given six months to live without the transplant, subsequently received a successful transplant and lived four more years with her husband, children and grandchildren.

Chris, along with Jim Bordas and Patty Fisher, has developed a series of digital video presentations for many of Bordas & Bordas' complex cases. Ask us to view clips of the video presentations prepared for Stemple v. Allegheny Energy Inc, Miller v. American Electric Power, Evans v. Allied Waste or other complex litigation matters. Chris has also been selected to speak at the popular West Virginia Bar Association's "Litigation" seminar, held annually in Davis, West Virginia and asked to speak at the WVAJ's biannual seminars and other continuing legal education conferences. Chris currently serves on the Board of Directors of the West Virginia Association for Justice, as well as on the amicus committee and the brief bank committee.

While attending Notre Dame Law School, Chris was twice Notre Dame's appellate moot court champion. Chris earned Notre Dame's Kirby Award for excellence in oral advocacy and also received the Weber Award for brief writing. As a member of the Notre Dame Law Review, Chris served as the Production Editor. He published an article entitled A Whole Lot of Nothing Going On: The Civil Rights "Remedy" of the Violence Against Women Act, 75 NOTRE DAME L.R. 797 (1999), in the Law Review during his third year of law school. Chris also served as a coach for the Notre Dame undergraduate mock trial team. Before joining Bordas & Bordas, Chris worked as a summer law clerk for the Honorable Judge Michael A. Telesca in the Western District of New York and with White & Case LLP in New York City.

Chris received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Notre Dame in 1997. Offered Appointment to the United States Naval Academy in 1993, Chris elected to perform his military service in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at Notre Dame. He served for four years as a midshipman, including brief sea tours aboard the USS Port Royal (CG-73) and the USS John Hancock (DD-981). Click here to see Chris at sea aboard the Port Royal, with the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the background.

Chris is a 1993 graduate of Bishop Kearney High School in Rochester, New York. In high school, Chris was the 1993 Catholic National Champion in debate. He was the 1992 and 1993 New York State Champion. Chris was selected to serve as captain of the United States National Debate Team in 1993. Chris was then invited to travel abroad to lecture Israeli students in Tel Aviv, Israel, in the summer of 1993. He continued to educate foreign students in debate in 1994 when he traveled to Scotland to lecture and perform in exhibitions.

Chris is licensed to practice law in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, as well as before the federal courts in all three states, the Supreme Court of the United States of America and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He belongs to the West Virginia State Bar Association, the Ohio Association for Justice, the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, and the West Virginia Association for Justice.

Chris' wife Paige operates an equestrian boarding facility, Innisfree Farm, in Triadelphia, West Virginia. Chris and Paige belong to St. Michael's parish in Wheeling.