Topic
Dog Bite
202 published works
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Man’s Best Friend—Are They Covered?
My blog post last month, Man’s Best Friend—Are You Covered, took a look at 2017 dog-bite statistics in the United States and whether the typical homeowners policy covered these types…
Worms & Germs Blog
More Capnocytophaga Q and A
By Scott Weese
Capnocytophaga questions keep coming in. I guess that’s good in some ways, because I usually get a lot of blank stares when I mention that bacterium. A recent article about…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Man’s Best Friend—Are You Covered?
According to the 2017 statistics of the Center for Disease Control (“CDC”), approximately 4.5 million dog bites occur in the United States every year.1 With the United States population as…
Napoli Shkolnik Blog
New York Dog Bite Laws
New York is a “mixed” state, meaning that it has a dog bite law statute that mixes the one-bite rule with a limited degree of strict liability. The statute makes…
ContractsProf Blog
Keeping premises safe doesn’t necessarily mean banning dogs
A recent case out of Connecticut, Madore v. ISCC, LLC, HHBCV166033741S, sits at the intersection of contract law and negligence. The plaintiff was bit by a dog at an ice…
Worms & Germs Blog
Dog bites, irony and injured kids
By Scott Weese
If it wasn’t for the injured child, this would be a funny story. There was a hearing in Hillsborough County, Florida about a proposed ordinance requiring dog trainers to be…
Worms & Germs Blog
Airport dog bite
By Scott Weese
While waiting in line to check-in for a flight in Orlando, a JetBlue passenger was bitten by a dog. This raises lots of issues and questions, and for the bitten…
Worms & Germs Blog
Dangerous dog designations
By Scott Weese
Dangerous dogs need to be addressed. Actually, it’s dangerous dog-owner pairs that are the issue, since there’s almost always a major human component to this kind of behaviour. Unfortunately, we…
Pennsylvania Law Monitor
Knocked Down and Injured by a Dog – Now What?
Most people are aware that a dog owner can be sued if his dog bites you. But what if a dog runs up to you, jumps on you, and knocks…
Worms & Germs Blog
Dog bite near-death: A cascade of missed opportunities
By Scott Weese
A few sentences into a Washington Post article entitled “A dog bite sent him to the ER. A cascade of missteps nearly killed him”, I was thinking, “This sounds like…