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Slack Davis, 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 has fought and won legal battles on behalf of the victims of airplane and helicopter crashes; catastrophic auto and…

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, 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.” 

Recent events, as reflected in these Austin American-Statesman articles, illustrate the risk to consumers from virtually unregulated compounding pharmacies. The magnitude of the harm that can be caused by these medications is enormous, and there is little consumers can do to assure themselves that materials injected into their bodies are safe.

The new laws described in this Texas Tribune article will increase the criminal penalty when someone fails to stop and render aid to a person who dies as a result of a crash. Now the penalties for hit-and-run fatalities will be equal to those for intoxication manslaughter.

After reading the Occupational Health & Safety magazine article below, I have to say that the Federal Aviation Administration’s  (FAA) action is an excellent step in the right direction that will hopefully help address the disproportionately high Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) accident rate.

Slack Davis attorney Ladd Sanger is featured prominently in this 60 Minutes (Australia) story about Robinson R-44 and R-22 helicopters – and their “faulty fuel tank that can explode on impact – turning minor and survivable accidents into deadly infernos.”

Recently I was interviewed for an article, “Air Ambulance Safety: A Closer Look,” which was written by Stephen Pope and featured in the July 2013 issue of Flying Magazine. While Mr. Pope touches on several key concerns regarding air ambulance operations, I felt the article painted too rosy a picture of an industry in need of serious reflection – and…

Corporate industry leaders are frustrated by having to pay huge medical bills caused by the hospitals’ and doctors’ own errors. So frustrated, in fact, that some of them have formed The Leapfrog Group, to try to force the medical industry to adopt basic patient safety checklists, and to force public disclosure of industry mistakes. Each action that…

With an international flight such as Asiana Flight #214, people may be wondering about the legal rights of passengers after the crash. Slack Davis aviation attorney Ladd Sanger contributed to this Wall Street Journal story that sheds more light on the topic. In it, he discusses the Montreal Convention, a treaty that guides the process of compensating victims of international…

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…