Sentences with phrase «many dog attack cases»

Since 1987, Oklahoma has had a series of dog attack cases where the victims have attempted to hold someone other than the actual dog owner responsible for their injuries.

Attacked by two pit bulls while walking to work in November 2015, Joseph Mooring of Bryan, Texas on January 27, 2017 won the second - highest award in a Texas dog attack case: $ 5.1 million for permanent nerve damage to his right leg and forearm, levied not by a jury but by 85th District Court Judge Kyle Hawthorne.

Representing bereaved mother Serena Clinton, retired Tyler district judge Cynthia Stevens Kent in September 2010 won the Texas record jury award in a dog attack case of $ 7 million against pit bull owners Rick and Christi George of Leveritt's Chapel in Rusk County.

But the $ 5 million jury award followed many other seven - figure awards in fatal and disfiguring dog attack cases which the victims have been unable to collect either from uninsured dog owners or from insurance companies which have successfully contended that the dog owners voided coverage by violating the terms of their policies.

Of note, however, is that adjudicating insurance payouts in fatal and disfiguring dog attack cases that go to court typically takes several years.

About 10 % of the dog attack cases among the 1,500 involved rampages in which a person is killed or maimed, and / or the dog is shot by police.

Hire an attorney with a long history of pursuing dog attack cases in California.

It might be applicable in a dog attack case.

If an owner's dog bites someone, he or she may be held completely liable and financially responsible for medical expenses, loss of wages, cost of hospitalization, pain and suffering, and even cosmetic surgery that is warranted in many dog attack cases.

It can be difficult to prove liability in a dog bite or dog attack case, and the law pertaining to dog bites in Colorado can be complex and confusing.

We've handled many dog attack cases for both children and adults.

Colorado dog bite laws are complex and it can be very difficult to prove who is at fault in dog bite or dog attack cases.

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Not exact matches

This was due to the response of the owners of the attacking dog, who in some cases used verbal abuse against blind & partially sighted people, some appeared to be under the influence of drink or drugs and in one case the owner of an aggressive dog laughed at a guide dog owner during an attack on his guide dog.

In most cases the causes of the attack was unprovoked and where the dog was uncontrolled and off the lead.

There was a common tendency for victims to blame themselves for the attack, rather than the animal, or in cases where the dog was not known to them, they blamed the dog owner.

Attacks were described as being unprovoked in 19 % of cases, caused by the aggressor dog in 22 % of cases, and caused by a lack of control in 29 % of cases.

Some schools even distributed dog tags, according to one recollection, in case bodies needed to be identified after an attack.

«We settled one case partly because the owner went on to a dog owner's blog and discussed the attack — and, in doing so, admitted that prior to the bite she knew the dog was acting aggressively.»

In severe cases, the dog can have seizures, inability to walk, heartbeat irregularities, heart attacks, coma and even death.

Yes, we know the AVA aims to discourage unleashing dogs in public due to the increasing cases of dog attacks in Singapore.

While it is terribly unfortunate that innocent passersby are attacked by unleashed dogs, cases like this raises a few questions.

In my case, my 13 year old dog was being attacked.

As has been detailed, fatal dog attacks are very rare in Australia (remember 27 cases since 2000), but tragedies such as that of Ayen Chol generate enormous outrage.

In the case of re-directed aggression an aroused dog may attack another dog just out of pent - up frustration.

Dog attacks should be approach as individual events; that is what allows for the cases you reference to be won.

NEVER turn and run, as this may trigger an attack (the dog's prey instinct may be triggered, in which case its instinct will be to chase you).

People there is a difference between a dog that bites and retreats in the majority of cases then a dog that attacks to kill.

An overwhelmingly large percentage of these attacks occur when irresponsible children intentionally trespass, and in some cases, antagonize the dog.

In many cases they are reacting to a real threat such as when another dog attacks them or a human uses excessive punishment.

The fact that all of this «fighting» talk is ancient history (in dog years) for the majority of dogs is a major reason why 99.9 % of them won't bite — which wouldn't be the case if they were genetically predisposed to attack.

Every searcher should have some kind of defense with them in case a dog attacks.

In cases where a dog is labeled as vicious, based upon the severity of injury it inflicts and also the frequency of attacks, Animal Control can decide to euthanize the animal.

A spokesperson for a State Farm office in Orlando said the company tries to persuade policyholders to sign an endorsement clause, freeing the company from liability in case of a dog attack.

The dogs that were created to ward off other dogs always had a predictable situation that had to occur which made the dog attack, such as a strange canine intruding into the dog's territory, or in the case of the greyhound mixes, the other canine is attacked because it is not part of the pack.

Both Lockwood and Fletcher said the public's best protection against attacks from pit bulls and other potentially dangerous breeds is strong «vicious - dog ordinances» that slap owners with hefty fines and, in some cases, criminal penalties.

Such cases, if added to the actual payouts reported in Dog Bite Prevention Week literature, would send the already soaring cost of dog attacks significantly highDog Bite Prevention Week literature, would send the already soaring cost of dog attacks significantly highdog attacks significantly higher.

One other reason for dog attacks is that the dog may be inbred, especially in the case of purebred dogs.

There have been well documented cases of serious, and occasionally fatal, dog attacks which have led to calls for stronger action from government.»

This typically applies to dogs that have bit someone in the community, or in the case of an animal with a history of aggression that has attacked in the past.

Horrible cases of dog attacks bring a flurry of laws to restrict or ban certain breeds or mixes in a frantic attempt to protect the public from dogs perceived as aggressive because of their appearance or because a similar dog committed a hostile action against a person or pet.

So rather than experiencing frank viral diseases such as the «flu, measles, mumps and rubella (and, in the case of dogs, parvovirus and distemper), we are allowing the viruses to win anyway — but with cancer, leukaemia and other inflammatory or autoimmune (self - attacking) diseases taking their place.

In some cases, dogs have also developed autoimmune hemolytic anemia, a condition where antibodies attack the body's own red blood cells, leaving the dog anemic.

There have been cases where they have been attacked by large birds -LRB-(eagles and falcons)-RRB-, and other dogs might think of them as «prey».

It not the most common case, but there are times when a cat is visiting the hospital because of issues involving a dog (such as being attacked or bitten by a dog).

Testing also looks for underlying causes such as cases where the immune system of your dog is attacking itself called autoimmune thyroiditis.

Most people think of «attack dogs» when they think of military or police dogs, but this is not the case.

Seizure Alert / Response Dog: These dogs are trained to hit a button that contacts 911 in case of a seizure or cardiac attack.