Dogs Causing Injury
As any Phoenix personal injury lawyer well knows, pets cause injuries to third parties in numerous ways.
The majority of Phoenix personal injuries involve dogs as one might expect. In addition, to dog bites, they can cause injuries by jumping and knocking people down, clawing, or even by running into traffic and causing accidents.
For the most part, a dog owner is liable for injuries caused by a dog if the owner should have known, or did know that the dog was likely to cause the type of injury that in fact occurred. If the dog is a breed that is aggressive, this is usually enough even though an injured party cannot necessarily show prior occurrences of biting another.
Other factors are important in Phoenix personal injury lawyer cases. If a dog is large in size, that enough is puts the owner on alert and the establishes the knowledge factor in a case where a third party is injured due to the dog jumping up and knocking them over.
In the instance of a dog causing an accident by running into the street, if the owner let the dog loose despite the fact that it ran on the street on prior occasions is usually enough to establish owner liability.
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