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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…
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 represented…
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.
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…