Drunk driving crashes are preventable tragedies that rob families of loved ones and change the lives of survivors forever. Fortunately, the men and women in Georgia law enforcement have played a major role in protecting motorists throughout our state. The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety provided the Georgia Department of Public Safety with a grant…
A FULTON COUNTY jury awarded more than $15 million to the parents of a young man killed when the car in which he and other members of a wedding party were riding was slammed from behind by a speeding drug-company representative with a long history of speeding tickets and other traffic offenses. The verdict included…
Researchers have found that teens who reported having a traumatic brain injury in the past year were seven times more likely to report drinking different brands of energy drinks in the last week, compared to teens who did not have a traumatic brain injury. The new report looked at 2013 survey information from over 10,000…
original story by Don Richardson of The Telfair Enterprise Former Telfair County coroner Raford Horton last week received a favorable verdict in a lawsuit related to his 2008 two-vehicle accident on Ga. Highway 31 (441) in front of his wrecker business. A Telfair County jury award Horton a total of $2,546,804: $1,253,804 for medical bills;…
In a case that could convince businesses to tell their employees to hang up their cellphones while driving, a Georgia woman won a $5.2 million settlement from a paper company whose employee caused an accident while talking on a company cellphone. The plaintiff’s attorney, Katherine McArthur, said that proving liability was fairly straightforward, but the…
original story by James Diffee of The Albany Herald ALBANY – A Dougherty County Superior Court jury awarded a $5 million verdict Thursday to a woman who sued an Albany physician for what she claimed was negligence during a 1998 procedure. Dr. William M. Sewell III performed a tubal ligation on Benita Parker at the…
original story by Katie Wood of the Daily Report Along the way to winning a $19 million verdict, the Macon lawyers representing the paralyzed and brain damaged victim of an exploding tire rim rejected a $7.5 million settlement offer. The defense proposal came after a federal jury in Lexington, Ky., determined that neither plaintiff Danny Webb nor…
original story by Donald Johnston of the Daily Report A record $2 million wrongful death verdict reached Friday in Bleckley County Superior Court was “nothing more and nothing less” than a tribute to a 42-year-old schoolteacher killed by a tractor-trailer with malfunctioning brakes, says plaintiff’s attorney W. Carl Reynolds. Reynolds and his partner, Katherine L. McArthur,…
