Summary: A dog bite can leave you with serious injuries, emotional trauma, and unexpected expenses. Understanding dog owner responsibility and knowing when to seek legal help can make a significant difference in your recovery. An experienced Kansas City dog bite lawyer can help protect your rights and pursue fair compensation. When you’ve been bit by […]
Summary: Dog bite injuries often involve more than just the dog’s owner. Liability can extend to landlords, property owners, or others who failed to prevent the attack. Understanding who is responsible is key to recovering full compensation, and requires a law firm willing to dig deeper. Dog bite injuries are a wide-spread problem in the […]
Dog Bites in Kansas City: A Serious Issue Dog bites are more common that you may think. According to the US Postal Service, Kansas City ranked 11th among US cities for the most dog bites to mail carriers. That equates to 32 dog bites in one year on mail carriers alone. The number is likely […]
The United States Postal Service has designated this week as National Dog Bite Awareness Week. The purpose of the designation is to bring attention to the staggering amount of dog bites postal service employees suffer every year. According to the USPS, 5,300 workers were bitten by dogs last year. In a press release about the event, the […]
It was recently reported that a camel was on the loose in Bonner Springs, Kansas. The article noted that police and animal control officers followed the camel through a golf course, along K7 Highway, and then apprehended it in a neighborhood. Luckily, it doesn’t appear the camel caused any injuries. But what if it had? […]
As Kansas City personal injury attorneys, we have handled many dog bite cases. One question that often comes up when visiting with potential clients with dog bite cases is what responsibility a homeowner has when a dog gets loose from their property and bites someone. Here’s what we’ve found in our experience with these cases. […]
Most people think a personal injury case involving a dog must mean the dog bit someone. However, in our experience handling such cases for over fifteen years in Missouri and Kansas, not all “dog bite” cases involve dog bites. An injury from a dog on the loose can occur even when the dog doesn’t bite […]
As personal injury lawyers, our firm has handled many dog bite cases and we get calls and contacts about dog bite cases frequently. One of the questions we always ask a potential client with a dog bite case is: where did the incident occur? This tells us where to look for leash laws. We need to […]
As a personal injury lawyer in Kansas City, we handle many dog bite cases. Because of this, we have become intimately familiar with the city’s leash laws. Under the doctrine of negligence per se, dog owners can be liable to pay money compensation for injuries their dogs cause if they get loose. Oddly, enough, the […]
As personal injury lawyers in Kansas City, our firm handles many dog bite injury cases. Over the years, we’ve developed ways to increase our clients’ recoveries in these cases. Here are a few things we do to help get our clients full and fair compensation in their dog bite cases. 1. Report the dog attack […]
Dog bite cases are generally pretty straightforward. Generally speaking, if you get bit by someone else’s dog, they are responsible for the injuries and damages. This is because state and local laws require dog owners to keep their dogs under control; either fenced in or on a leash. Since dog bites usually happen when the […]
A 300-pound chimpanzee that escaped from its cage and ran amok made headlines recently in Kansas City. Had the chimpanzee injured someone, that person would have undoubtedly had a personal injury case under Kansas City’s leash laws. Yes, in Kansas City you are required to keep your chimpanzee on a leash, or at least in […]
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