A Review Of Dog Bite Accidents
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Have you ever been bitten by a dog when you accidentally entered the compound of a house or farm? Well, cases of dog bites are reported in large numbers in nearly every city of Canada. This is because more and more people opt for a dog as a pet to fight their loneliness. As the saying goes “Dog is the man’s best friend”; it holds good even for women. Actually, a survey showed that more women tend to keep dog as their pet than men. Although dogs are well trained and they learn to live with humans in harmony, yet there are very particular about the security of their master’s house.
They are so particular about the security that they can attack any incoming intruder and leave him or her injured. This is why law has been enforced to ensure that proper guidelines are followed when keeping a dog as your pet. One of the important guideline is the sign board over the gate which says “Beware of Dogs”. This sign board tends to alert a person before he or she enters the compound of a house that there might be a dog on lose and it could be dangerous to step in without intimating the master of the house.
Even though strict laws have been enforced, yet there are many careless individuals who do not put on such sign boards over their house gates or farm gates thus leaving a great danger for the people who may get attacked by a dog when they enter the compound. Many cases of dog attacks have been reported over the past many years essentially due to the carelessness of the dog owner. Therefore, if one ends up getting bitten by a dog because of the dog owner’s carelessness, then you can file a suit against the dog owner and claim compensation for the personal Injury.
For this, a personal injury lawyer Toronto can help you out with the proper procedure to file a suit against the dog owner. Your attorney will study the case well, check out the possibility of getting a claim and then accordingly advice you to claim the same. All the legal proceedings are handled by the lawyer, ensuring that you do not go through extra ordeal of pain. The injury caused to you is first analyzed by the medical insurance company. It is only after that the case is either made very strong or fragile.
The amount of claim depends on the kinds of injury and the way it happened. There are high chances if you are able to prove that the dog attacked you suddenly and that you had absolutely no clue that there was a dog in the house compound. But generally, it is very hard to prove the same and this is precisely why law has been made in such a way that the case is ruled in favor of the person who gets bitten by the dog. This is because at the end of the day, it’s the job of the dog owner to prevent such a thing from happening.