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Many patients are being injured by a new type of surgery: surgery by robot. More properly, these surgeries are robot-assisted, as a physician still maneuvers the robot.

The many names may sound intimidating — drones, unmanned aircraft systems, unmanned aerial vehicles — but the public should get used to this technology, because it’s not going anywhere. 

Generic drug makers, who fill 84% of prescriptions in the U.S., are required to copy the labels of their brand-name equivalents verbatim. Because they have no control over the safety warnings’ content, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that generic drug manufacturers cannot be held liable if the drug ends up hurting a patient. 

The November 10, 2013, crash of a Mitsubishi MU-2B in Owasso, Oklahoma, is the most recent in a long list of MU-2 crashes that have occurred near the airport while taking off or landing. 

Since January 2000, the primary mission of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has been to “reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.” Part of this mission involves enforcing Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) that establish safe-operating requirements for commercial vehicle drivers, carriers and vehicles. Last week, however, the National…

Early Tuesday (10/22/13), a medical helicopter operated by Hospital Wing, crashed near Somerville, Tennessee, killing the pilot and two medical crew members. Hospital Wing, an air ambulance operation that transports patients by helicopter, left Memphis and was headed to Bolivar, Tennessee to pick up an ailing child.

Two recent articles demonstrate the incredible dangers of hospitalization for any condition. Unfortunately, hospital-acquired infection cases are rarely actionable in court, due to the difficulty in proving that the infection came about due to negligence rather than due to unpreventable forces. This mentality by health care providers is slowly changing, however, as the cost of…

The Texas Access to Justice Commission announced last week that Slack Davis Sanger is one of the winning law firms in its second annual Access to Justice (ATJ) Campaign. The 2013 campaign raised more than $1 million for Texas Legal Aid.

Slack Davis Sanger, a Texas-based litigation firm with offices in Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth, and a national practice handling serious personal injury and wrongful death cases, is celebrating its 20-year anniversary. For two decades, Slack Davis Sanger has fought and won legal battles on behalf of the victims of airplane and helicopter crashes; catastrophic…

We were excited to reconnect with renowned Statesman reporter Patrick Beach for the following article. He sums up quite concisely our mission here at Slack Davis Sanger, i.e. materially helping clients and “pushing for regulation and reform so that, say, a faulty fuel line in a helicopter doesn’t lead to another deadly incident.”