Attorney Profiles

Attorneys:

Carlin Phillips

Phillips & Garcia, P.C.
13 Ventura Drive
North Dartmouth, MA 02747

Carlin Phillips is the co-founder of Phillips and Garcia, P.C. and has devoted his entire career to representing consumers and personal injury victims receive the economic justice they deserve. A practicing Massachusetts attorney for the past 17 years, Mr. Phillips is a trial lawyer who has learned about insurance company practices and personal injury claims in the "trenches" of litigation.

Much of Mr. Phillips legal practice has been focused on personal injury and class action law, including:

serious motor vehicle collisions;
construction accidents;
dog bite and dog accident cases;
children's injuries;
wrongful death;
brain damage cases;
insurance disputes; and
insurance bad faith claims.

He also has extensive experience representing select business clients throughout the SouthCoast with business litigation and licensing issues, exclusivity and non-compete agreements and complex contract issues.

He is the first lawyer in the country to file class action litigation to stop insurance companies from taking Silent PPO discounts on auto insurance medical expense claims and obtain class wide settlements for his clients. Mr. Phillips' expertise in insurance bad faith claims has resulted in him being sought-out by medical providers across the country to negotiate managed care contracts and to file litigation against insurance companies who underpay medical providers on valid medical expense claims.

Mr. Phillips has argued cases in both the State and Federal courts, including the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Throughout his legal career, Mr. Phillips' professionalism and commitment to consumer rights has resulted in successful jury verdicts for his clients and numerous multi-million dollar class action settlements.

His interest in helping families fight against insurance companies began shortly after Mr. Phillips started practicing law:

"I grew up in a big family with seven kids. We did not have a lot of money. When I became a lawyer, I quickly realized that there were too many lawyers for insurance companies and Big Corporations and not enough lawyers fighting for the hard working people I knew and grew up with. I decided very early in my career to use my energy as a lawyer to give regular people and small business owners a voice by telling their stories in court."

Mr. Phillips is also passionate about continuing to hone his skills as an attorney, and is a 2000 graduate of Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyer's College, an elite school for trial lawyers. He obtained his law school degree in 1992 from the New England School of Law in Boston and his undergraduate degree from Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Bar Admissions:

State: 1992, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Federal: 1992, United States District Court, District of Massachusetts
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit

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