J. Christopher Collins Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Worcester, MA

I will focus my practice on life and health insurance matters with a concentration on disability income insurance and will assist the Firm in client development both locally and nationally. I will also continue to serve the community in a broad array of philanthropic activities. I am very active in the Worcester community, having served on numerous boards.

• Responsible for management of all legal services to Unum’s largest business, Unum US, the largest provider of group and individual disability insurance in the US with over $6B in annual revenue. Responsibilities.
• Oversee all ERISA issues involving welfare benefit plans.
• Responsible for employment law team that provides traditional legal support to the entire Unum Group enterprise and business support for Unum’s FMLA and ADA product offerings.
• Managed Complex Litigation team that handled all policyholder class actions, False Claim Act, regulatory investigations, and other complex matters that were outside the company’s traditional claim litigation portfolio..

• After the merger between Unum Corporation and Provident Companies was completed in 1999, appointed to lead the combined litigation function and claims advisory function of the newly formed company. During this period.
• Responsible for litigation reserves totaling more than $200M and settlement dollars of an equal amount.
• Extensive trial strategy experience coordinated with a large group of experienced outside counsel.
• Directly responsible for managing large multi-district class action litigation and numerous individual class actions involving securities law, breach of fiduciary duties under the company’s 401(k), and insurance claim.
• A major leader in the company’s effort to resolve a major crisis during its most difficult period in its 100+ year history, including resolution of a multi-state regulatory investigation and handling of the.

• After Provident Companies Inc. acquired The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company in 1997, was asked to lead the combined litigation function and claims advisory function of Provident. The combined companies had a.
• Managed a rapidly growing team of lawyers, paralegals, and administrative support personnel. The company had active litigation in almost every state in the country.
• Responsible for carefully shaping common law throughout the US that was favorable to the company and the industry.

• Vice President and Assistant General CounselVarious legal titles starting from entry-level attorney, Assistant CounselServed as an associate to senior lawyers in all areas of the law department. Gained experience in.
• Worked on all lines of insurance coverage Paul Revere marketed, including life, annuities, group, and individual disability insurance. Became skilled on issues impacted by the company’s career and brokerage.
• Quickly promoted and eventually gravitated to the litigation side of the department as the volume of litigation on the individual disability insurance line began to grow.
• Expertise on trial strategies with an emphasis on first-party bad faith litigation; co-counseled with many premiere trial lawyers across the country. Second chair lawyer on numerous trials; enviable track record of.

A.B., 1980

J.D., 1983