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,…
