original story by Alex Anteau of the Daily Report THE MCARTHUR AND Dellacona law firms obtained a $9.2 million wrongful death jury verdict in a Bibb County State Court medical-malpractice trial on Thursday. Attorneys Tracey Dellacona, Caleb Walker, Jessica Edmonds, Pam Godfrey and Katherine McArthur represented Norkesia Turner, the daughter and next of kin of…
original story by Katheryn Tucker of the Daily Report Macon lawyer Katherine McArthur won an $817,500 verdict last week in a trial that followed a $250,000 State Farm insurance policy limit demand for injuries from a car crash. McArthur said Thursday the best pretrial offer from the defense was $125,000. She said the defense attorney told…
original story by Greg Land of the Daily Report A woman who claimed an emergency room doctor’s failure to provide prompt treatment for nerve damage caused by a ruptured disk and left her permanently incontinent and unable to work was awarded a post apportionment verdict of more than $3.1 million by a Gwinnett County jury. The…
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…
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,…
