Katherine McArthur
Proven VerdictsAbout Katherine McArthur
Katherine 'Kathy' L. McArthur is the founder and owner of McArthur Law Firm in Georgia, with offices serving both Atlanta and Macon. For more than four decades, she has dedicated her career to fighting for individuals who have suffered catastrophic injuries and families who have lost loved ones due to negligence.
Licensed to practice law in Georgia since 1980, McArthur focuses her practice exclusively on personal injury matters, including wrongful death, car accidents, truck crashes, and medical malpractice.
McArthur earned her law degree from UNC School of Law in 1979 and her Bachelor's Degree from the University of North Carolina in 1976 with Phi Beta Kappa honors.
She is Board Certified as a Specialist in Truck Accident Law, Civil Trial Law, Civil Practice Advocacy, and Medical Malpractice by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA). She has been a Georgia Super Lawyer since 2005, Top 10 since 2018, and Top 3 since 2023. She has been named Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year for many years; in 2023, she earned the title for two practice areas.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Bibb County jury returned a $25 million verdict against two OB-GYNs who failed to diagnose and manage severe preeclampsia, resulting in a stillbirth in 2017.
A Bibb County jury awarded $13.775 million to the estate of Bennie Moore after an anesthesiologist's assistant failed to notice she had stopped breathing during a 2017 endoscopy, causing a fatal hypoxic brain injury.
Stevie Bryant, a young mother, died in May 2020 after a crash on the Downtown Connector in Atlanta sent the car she was riding in into an impact attenuator that had been left improperly installed at a highway construction site. Her family sued the contractor, Precision 2000, Inc., in DeKalb County State Court. The case settled for $12.5 million in 2025, less than a week before jury selection was to begin.
A Bibb County jury awarded $9.2 million to the family of Allen Turner, a 69-year-old Macon man who died after surgeons at the Medical Center of Central Georgia mistakenly severed his superior mesenteric artery during a 2017 polyp-removal procedure.
A widowed mother of four lost her arm nearly to the shoulder after an International Paper employee, talking on a company-supplied cell phone with her cruise control set at 77 mph, rear-ended her on Interstate 16 near Dublin, Georgia. The paper company settled in mid-December 2007, ahead of a March 17, 2008 trial date. The settlement was $5.2 million.
On October 27, 2008, a tractor-trailer crossed the center line of Georgia Highway 31 near McRae and hit the pickup of Raford Horton, a 60-year-old former Telfair County coroner. Horton's pelvis, left knee and left hip were badly injured, and he suffered foot drop. The defendants stipulated to fault on the eve of trial in September 2011, and a Telfair County jury awarded the Hortons $2,836,814, including $250,000 to his wife for loss of consortium.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
