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Reading this article from The New York Times, it is encouraging to see that the FDA may make new rules requiring generic drug manufacturers to update drug labels with new safety information. What remains to be seen is whether the new rules will open the door that the Supreme Court says is closed to people…
On Sunday, July 7, 2013, a de Havilland DHC3 Otter air taxi operated by Rediske Air, crashed and fully engulfed in flames at a small Alaska airport, near Soldotna, Alaska, killing all 10 people on board – nine passengers and a pilot. “In the circumstances known to exist – crash near the airport, lots of…
American Airlines Flight 587 crashed on November 12, 2001, near Belle Harbor, NY, shortly after the Airbus 300-600 suffered an in-flight structural separation of the vertical stabilizer and rudder. The scheduled flight carrying 251 passengers and nine crew members had taken off a few minutes before the crash from New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport…
The crash of American Airlines Flight 331 in Kingston, Jamaica, on December 22, 2009, was the second crash of an American Airlines passenger jet that occurred during an attempted landing in stormy, gusty conditions. The previous crash of American Airlines 1420 on June 1, 1999, in Little Rock, Arkansas, involved similar circumstances. Slack Davis Sanger…
On the night of June 1, 1999, American Airlines Flight 1420 crashed at the Little Rock National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, as a line of intense thunderstorms moved across the area. The flight had originated at the Dallas-Ft. Worth International (DFW) airport. There were 139 passenger on board and six crew members. Ten passengers…
On Monday, July 1, 2013, new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulations took effect related to truck drivers’ schedules and hours of service. These new regulations were a result of significant research on chronic fatigue and the impact it has on commercial drivers.
Slack Davis Sanger could not be more proud of Paula Sweeney. She has been named “Trial Lawyer of the Year” by the Dallas Bar Association (DBA). Even though the award’s official presentation is not until September, we had to share the cover story from the July 2013 issue of Headnotes, the DBA’s monthly newsletter. Congratulations,…
The American Association for Justice has just released a report titled, “Truck Safety Alert: The Rising Danger from Trucks and How to Stop It.” As you’ll read in the report, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the rate of truck accidents and fatalities has begun to creep up after several years of…
Slack Davis Sanger aviation attorney Mike Slack is quoted in this KXII-TV (Oklahoma) news story about EagleMed’s latest medical helicopter crash.
The McAlester News-Capital story below describes some sad and troubling news. On Tuesday evening, June 11, 2013, a medical helicopter operated by Air Medical Holding Group of Dallas, Texas, under the name EagleMed, crashed in the parking lot of the Choctaw Nation Health Care Center hospital in Talihina in southeastern Oklahoma, killing one patient and…