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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The pilot and a passenger of a small plane that crashed after taking off from a small South Dakota airport on Thanksgiving weekend, killing nine of 12 members of an Idaho family who were on board, spent three hours clearing snow and ice from the aircraft before departure, the National Transportation […]
LEARN MOREBy Michael R. Sisak The Washington Post December 10, 2019 NEW YORK — The helicopter company whose doors-off flight crashed in a New York City river last year, trapping all five passengers in their harnesses, exploited a regulatory loophole to avoid stricter safety requirements, federal investigators said Tuesday. FlyNYON operated under the government’s least stringent […]
LEARN MOREBy Gary C. Robb KC Counselor April 2019 Having Anita as my law partner for the past 35 years has been one of the greatest joys of my life. Anita makes our law practice exciting. She is masterful. She is brilliant. She is polished. She is fierce. She is relentless. She cannot be intimidated. She […]
LEARN MORESurvival Flight Inc. accepted the flight and departed from Grove City for Holzer Meigs hospital in Pomeroy at 6:28 a.m., according to a preliminary report released this week by the National Transportation Safety Board.
LEARN MOREGary C. Robb TRIAL 2/01/2019 Medical helicopters transport approximately 400,000 patients in the United States annually.1 Yet air ambulance companies have resisted industry and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposals that call for enhanced safety equipment such as crash-resistant fuel tanks and other safety regulations.2 Meanwhile, preventable crashes continue to occur.3 When representing people injured or […]
LEARN MOREBy Jim Carlton The Wall Street Journal 8/07/2018 Dave Repsher, who suffered third-degree burns over 90% of his body in a 2015 helicopter accident in Colorado, exemplifies the human toll when fuel tanks lacking the most-advanced safety features rupture in a crash. Crash investigators determined the emergency medical chopper’s crush-prone fuel system—legal under Federal Aviation […]
LEARN MOREBy Andy Pasztor The Wall Street Journal 8/07/2018 After a rash of helicopter accidents several years ago ending in fatal fires, industry executives and regulators reached a high-profile compromise: Businesses could avoid rules mandating safety upgrades and retrofits but would be expected to make the changes on their own. “You got our attention and we’re […]
LEARN MOREBy Chris Perez New York Post 3/13/2018 The first lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the helicopter and charter companies involved in Sunday’s deadly crash in the East River — with the family of one of the victims accusing them of negligence and “carelessness.” Pilot Richard Vance, who was at the controls when the chopper went […]
LEARN MOREBy Felicia Fonseca The Washington Post 3/03/2018 FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The parents of a British tourist who died after the Grand Canyon sightseeing helicopter he was in crashed have filed the first wrongful death lawsuit related to last month’s crash. The complaint filed Friday in Clark County District Court in Nevada accused helicopter owner Papillon […]
LEARN MOREBy Anita Porte Robb The Missouri Trial Attorney Spring 2018 Being a plaintiff’s trial lawyer was not my original plan. In high school, I gave serious thought to becoming either a doctor or a lawyer. I finally decided to become a lawyer, thinking that if I worked in the field of medical law, I could […]
LEARN MOREBy Scott Lauck The Daily Record 2/5/2018 The Kansas City law firm of Robb & Robb reached a $100 million settlement for a flight nurse who was severely burned in a medical helicopter crash in Colorado. Anita Porte Robb said the settlement, announced Thursday, appears to be the largest pre-trial settlement for a single injured […]
LEARN MOREThe Washington Post 2/01/2018 DENVER – A former Colorado flight nurse who survived a helicopter ambulance crash with horrific burns over 90 percent of his body will receive a record $100 million cash settlement from the maker and operator of the aircraft, his lawyer said on Thursday. The sum is believed to be the largest […]
LEARN MOREBy Bill Estep Lexington Herald Leader 9/29/2017 A Clay County jury has awarded a total of $21.7 million to survivors of three people killed in the crash of a medical helicopter in June 2013. The crash occurred as the helicopter returned to its base in Manchester after taking a patient to a hospital in London. […]
LEARN MOREBy Danny Tindell Dothan Eagle 5/03/2017 The parents of a flight nurse killed in a Coffee County air ambulance crash last year will receive $5 million from the helicopter operator. A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge approved the settlement award Monday to the family of Stacey Cernadas, who was aboard a Haynes Air Ambulance emergency […]
LEARN MORESuper Lawyers 11/22/2016 ROBB & ROBB LLC ROBB & ROBB LLC HAS WON MORE THAN $950 MILLION IN LANDMARK CASES NATIONWIDE SINCE 1984. NOTHING SPEAKS LOUDER THAN RESULTS. FIRM HISTORY ROBB & ROBB LLC handles high-profile cases in the aviation and transportation field. Forbes Magazine has named partner Gary C. Robb “by far the most […]
LEARN MOREBy David Baugher Missouri Lawyers Weekly 10/17/2016 An Iowa helicopter crash that left three dead has resulted in a settlement of more than $5.1 million for the family of a flight nurse who was on board. “The argument was that the policies of the helicopter operator were defective and deficient because they allowed flight into […]
LEARN MOREBy Alan Scher Zagier Missouri Lawyers Weekly 8/22/2016 A Pettis County lawsuit filed by a University of Missouri Health Care nurse and a paramedic, who both suffered spinal injuries after an emergency helicopter landing, settled for $3.3 million, according to the attorneys representing the women. Flight nurse Hester West and paramedic Elisabeth Corcoran separately sued […]
LEARN MOREThe Associated Press 4/11/2016 A medical helicopter was not certified for flying in the foggy, low‑visibility conditions it encountered before crashing last month with a patient in southeast Alabama, killing all four aboard, federal investigators say in a newly released report. Fog and mist enveloped the landing zone in a farm field near the scene […]
LEARN MOREBy Jan Murray The Southeast Sun 3/31/2016 While it is too early to know for sure what led to a fatal air ambulance helicopter crash March 26, a helicopter crash expert, attorney and author Gary C. Robb said, “If you rule out mechanical malfunction then, obviously, you’re looking at pilot error or a combination of […]
LEARN MOREBy Andy Pasztor The Wall Street Journal 12/29/2015 The helicopter industry is changing course to embrace tougher fuel-tank fire standards for many models in production after years of stiff resistance to the safety fixes as unnecessary and expensive. The shift also portends retrofits for at least several thousand additional rotorcraft already in service—the vast majority […]
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Settlement for flight nurse's severe burn injuries in crash of medical helicopter (United States record).
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