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Caldwell G. Collins

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Caldwell Collins leads the Firm's Managed Care Litigation team.

Featured Experience


Obtained a complete defense verdict in arbitration for a long term care provider sued for medication mismanagement and a resident fall.

Obtained a complete defense verdict for a national retailer in a malicious prosecution and false imprisonment case.

Obtained a jury verdict in favor of the buyer in a breach of contract and conversion case.

Professional Biography


Ms. Collins has extensive experience representing health care providers on both sides of payor disputes. She has led the fight to recover millions of dollars of underpayments for life-saving health care services on behalf of her clients. She has defeated baseless attempts to bring nationwide class action and racketeering suits against providers, which alleged massive upcoding schemes. Ms. Collins also advocates for providers in professional liability actions. Her knowledge of health care operations, particularly in the long term care sphere, sets her apart. She provides counsel to her clients on quality assurance, corporate compliance, daily operations, litigation avoidance, challenging survey citations, and government investigations. 

She also defends commercial business owners against premises liability claims; defective product claims; defective drug and medical device claims; and in complex contract disputes.

As a member of the Firm's Baker Women (BW) Leadership Team, Ms. Collins was heavily involved in crafting the Firm's current parental leave policy. She also leads the BW Office Leader Committee and serves as the BW office leader for the Nashville office. Her extensive pro bono work focuses on representation of victims of domestic violence in securing divorces from their abusers. In 2018, Ms. Collins was named an "On the Rise - Top 40 Young Lawyer" by American Bar Association. She was selected for the 2020 class of Fellows of the Nashville Bar Foundation. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Litigation - Health Care (2022 – 2025) and Chambers USA as a leading Litigation: General Commercial lawyer in Tennessee (2024, 2025).

Education

  • Washington University School of Law, J.D., 2009
    • Editor in Chief, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy
    • President, Women's Law Caucus
  • Vanderbilt University, B.A., 2005

Admissions

  • Tennessee, 2009
  • Kentucky, 2018
  • United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, 2009
  • United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee, 2010
  • United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, 2011 
  • United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 2011

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