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About Erica Collins
Erica M. Collins is an associate attorney at Davis, Bethune and Jones whose practice covers personal injury, wrongful death, motor vehicle collisions, and civil litigation. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Rockhurst University in Kansas City and her Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law, where she graduated on the Dean's List, was a member of the UMKC All Journal Staff, and is a member of Phi Delta Phi. She has been published in the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Collins began her legal career in 2017 and has experience across all stages of litigation, from discovery through trial preparation and courtroom advocacy.
She is known for building client trust and communicating with clarity and empathy. A native of Washington, Missouri, she is married with a daughter and pursues theatre arts in her personal time. She is licensed in Missouri and Kansas.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Davis, Bethune & Jones, L.L.C.
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Georgia Hayes, a Kansas City area ovarian cancer patient, sued pharmacist Robert Courtney after learning he had diluted the chemotherapy drugs used in her treatment. A Jackson County jury found Courtney liable and awarded Hayes $225,571,439 in compensatory damages and $2 billion in punitive damages, the first of hundreds of similar suits against Courtney to reach trial. The trial judge later found the award excessive and cut it by remittitur to $330,071,439, and that reduced judgment stood. Hayes herself and the case reporter covering the verdict both said she was unlikely to ever collect a significant portion of it.
A St. Louis jury awarded $28 million in compensatory damages and $149 million in punitive damages to Shannon Dugan, a New Jersey sheriff's deputy who was sexually assaulted by a Hyatt security guard who used his master key to enter her hotel room while she slept. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the full award in December 2024.
A 15-year-old boy went into Arkansas Children's Hospital for surgery to remove the brain tissue causing his seizures. The surgeon opened the wrong side of his head and removed healthy tissue before turning to the correct side. His parents were not told, and learned of it more than a year later during an unrelated examination.
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