Dog Bite & Dog Attack Lawyer Video

Transcript

Dog bite cases are very interesting. We have statutory law that deals with what a dog hunter is responsible for, but our basic common law actually goes back to Leviticus in the Bible in the law of domesticated animals. Dogs are considered to be domesticated animals. And every domesticated animal that harms someone is given one chance, whether it's an ox bull or a dog, so owners of dogs aren't really put on notice that their dog is dangerous until it bites someone first. Now in recent history we have some exceptions to that and there's a list of dogs that are considered dangerous, have dangerous propensities, and those animals you keep at your own risk, they're not given the one bite chance. Now what people really don't know about dog bite law is we think of dogs that are vicious. We see maybe not as many cases but we often see cases where a dog is mischievous and so when you have a dog that's just too friendly and it knocks a seven-year-old woman down and she breaks her hip, that's covered by the law too. So you have to really look at it from the aspect of not only what you expect, which is a dog bite, a vicious dog, a dog that has attacked other dogs or is known to attack others or the vet maybe has contained in the record somewhere that this dog could be dangerous, needs a muzzle, but also a dog that jumps on someone and knocks them down and causes injury and that happens, those cases are good cases too. So if you have one of those problems let us know, we'll help you with it.