Professional

1967 Rockefeller Fellowship- Boston University, School of Theology 1970 J.D. Degree University of California, Hastings College of the Law 1971 Admitted to practice law in the State of California, District Courts in the State of California, and before the United States Supreme Court 1971 to 1990 Senior Partner, Haight, Brown & Bonesteel in Los Angel... es; formed and headed the Coverage/Bad Faith Department which grew to over 20 lawyers in the 1980s. 1991 to 2001 Senior Partner, Johnson, Schachter & Collins in Sacramento. 2001 to 2007 Of Counsel, Farmer, Murphy, Smith & Alliston. 2007 to 2009 Of Counsel, Murphy, Campbell, Guthrie & Alliston. Mr. Collins was a co-founder and original member of the Board of Directors (1985 1990) of Attorneys Insurance Mutual (AIM), a captive professional liability insurer of large California law firms; he drafted the errors and omissions policy for AIM, and was actively engaged in both the underwriting of the policies and the management of claims. Mr. Collins has testified before the State Senate Insurance Committee on automobile insurance issues. He has authored several books for lectures in the area of insurance coverage and has written articles for the nationally published DRI Journal, For the Defense. He has authored two professional liability policies. He has multiple state and federal published opinions in coverage law, including automobile, legal malpractice, product liability, trigger of loss, and advertising injury. (Reported cases: Phoenix Insurance Company v. Sukut Construction Company, Inc. (1982) 136 Cal.App.3d 673; McCall v. Great American Insurance Company (1981) 119 Cal.App.3d 993; Zurich-American Insurance Company v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (1978) 85 Cal.App.3d 481 Aetna Casualty & Surety Company v. Lonnie Richmond (1977) 76 Cal.App.3d 645; Hancock Laboratories, Inc. v. Admiral Insurance Company (9th Cir. 1985) 777 F.2d 520; Peerless Lighting Corp. v. American Motorists Insurance Company (2000) 82 Cal.App.4th 995. Mr. Collins recently authored an article on ...Read More