Los Angeles Dog Bite Injury Attorney

Dog bites can be very dangerous, especially to children.  In fact, dog bites are major type of injuries suffered by children more than other type of injuries.  In California, liabilities on dog bites are stricter than other states.  In fact, dog owners are strictly liable to a victim of dog bites in the state of California. In common law, dog owners are subject to one bite rule, meaning that dog owners are excused from liabilities if they did not know of any prior occurrences of biting or vicious behavior exhibited by their dog in the past and the dog bit someone.  However, California legislature adopted a statute, which repudiated the common law’s requirement of scienter (i.e. knowledge that the dog had injured someone in the past by the same manner), making the one bite rule no longer applicable.

Many defenses to dog bite liability are also available to dog owners.  If you were bitten by a dog while you were trespassing or provoking the dog, you may not recover or recover reduced amounts for your injury.  If your child whose age is under five has been bitten by a dog, no matter what he did that caused the accident, you will be able to recover because children under five are simply incapable to be negligent by either provoking or trespassing.

In many cases dog bite accidents happen to friends and families of the dog owner.  It makes it difficult to sue someone so close to you for your sustained dog bite injury.  However, many dog owners have home owner’s insurance that could cover your injury.  The dog owners needs to be responsible and accountable for their dog’s action.  In almost all cases, bad dogs are products of bad owners.  Dog owners are and should be held responsible.  Our Los Angeles dog bite injury attorney can help you recover your loss and suffering from a serious dog bite injury.  Do not go through the process of recovering your damages alone.  We are here to help.