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We are frequently recognized for our cases and verdicts involving catastrophic injury and death related to air crashes; but our firm also handles truck wrecks, oilfield explosions, defective medical devices, harmful prescription drugs and much more. In fact, two of our recent winning verdicts, which highlighted risks associated with ground operators who service and support…
A Robinson helicopter crashed in northeast Harris County yesterday, killing the pilot and passenger. Helicopter pilot and Slack Davis Sanger aviation attorney Ladd Sanger has handled multiple Robinson helicopter cases, including an R-22 photo flight in Houston, Texas, and an R-44 crash in Fredericksburg, Texas (which involved a survivable post-crash fire much like yesterday’s crash).
This August 7, 2012, article by Cadie Carroll of Digital Journal includes my comments on the Montreal Convention with regard to international travel.
As this article illustrates, increased demand and higher oil prices in the past few years have driven domestic oil producers and their service and equipment suppliers to extend beyond safe capacity. Inexperienced crews, equipment stressed beyond its safety limits, and time pressures combine to create a deadly, dangerous recipe for disaster in the oilfield. When…
On Thursday, July 26, 2012, in the 298th Judicial District Court in Dallas County, a jury unanimously concluded that negligence by an Oriental Building Services, Inc. employee was solely responsible for injuries sustained by Rene Leduc, an American Airlines baggage handler at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The amount of the verdict was $3,700,942.72. Slack Davis…
Economic development efforts can have a positive effect on a community. New jobs and increased tax revenue are always welcome. But sometimes, there’s a downside. And for the south central Texas counties surrounding the Eagle Ford Shale oil development, a negative effect can be seen in the number of pick-ups, oil tankers and gravel trucks…
The July 10 incident involving American Airlines Flight 1780, in which mid-air turbulence caused injuries to flight attendants and passengers on a flight between Aruba and Miami, served as a reminder that injuries can and will happen on airplanes. Fortunately, those passengers and others traveling internationally have significant legal recourse.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Stryker Orthopaedics is recalling its Rejuvenate and ABG II modular-neck stems due to potential risks associated with fretting and corrosion at the modular neck junction.
On Saturday, July 7, a crane collapsed at a construction site at the University of Texas at Dallas, killing ironworkers Terry Weaver, from Grand Saline, Texas, and Tom Fairbrother, from Austin.
Last year the FDA changed the way it classifies the popular migraine prevention drug Topamax® because of evidence that Topamax causes cleft lip and cleft palate in children whose mothers took Topamax very early in their pregnancy.