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Recent studies have found that California leads the nation in dog bite related injuries. If a dog bit you, we can help. Please call us at 1-888-752-7474 or use our Contact Us section to discuss your case in a free consultation.

Our office has represented many victims of dog bites throughout California. A good personal injury attorney can advance a dog bite case, but to maximize your recovery, an experienced personal injury attorney who has handled many dog bite cases is going to get a better result.

Our office is on the forefront in representation of dog bite victims. Not only are we representing dog bite victims as against the owners of the dog, but against the owners of the home where the dog is kept, if the owner was a renter, and we are leading the way in requiring cities and the State of California to enforce their statutes and laws or be subject to action against the victim.

California law allows three types of claims arising from a dog bite. First, the dog owner may be liable in negligence or strict liability. In a negligence action, the owner will be proven to have caused injury by doing something that an ordinary owner would not do. Examples of this type of liability proof arise when the owner has kept the dog improperly, allowing it to escape and bite someone, improper leashing, training the dog to be aggressive, and allowing the dog to be repeatedly aggressive. To prove this case, witnesses are important, as are the reports of the animal control officers. Our office will strive to identify the other incidences that have occurred with such a claim and demonstrate that the dog has either threatened or bitten another person before. We have not lost a dog bite case in the history of the firm, in part because of the determination to identify the negligence of the animal owner early and then document the liability.

Additionally in California there is a statute that allows for a finding of strict liability, that is liability without proof that the owner did or did not do something directly. In strict liability, we need only prove that the dog owner owned, kept or controlled the dog, that the dog has an unusually dangerous tendency that the owner knows or should know about (a pitbull as an example), and the animal caused injury because of this dangerous tendency. The purpose of this law is to make sure owners of dogs that are inherently dangerous as a breed or by character, are held responsible for those injuries.

Landowners are also responsible for dog bites if they knew or should have known that the dog posed a threat to anyone. Many personal injury attorneys that do not specialize in this type of law fail to recognize the potential recovery opportunity from a landowner that may have insurance coverage while the renter does not.

We can help you get the recovery you need from a dog bite case. Call a California personal injury attorney that specializes in dog bite cases. Call us at 1-888-752-7474 or Contact Us.