Dog Bites: Painful and pricey

Your insurance company is asking.   "Insurance companies today are becoming increasingly sophisticated about these cases," said Jonathan Rosenfeld, a personal injury lawyer in Chicago.   Dog bites produced more than $108 million in insurance claims last year, 10 percent of which came from Illinois, according to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., in Bloomington, Ill. And as a result, premiums change and in some cases, insurance companies drop dog owners from their coverage altogether.   "A lot of people think that people get external link bit by stray dogs," said Missy Dundov of State Farm Insurance. "It's actually more your neighbor's or family's dog."   Dog-related injuries are usually covered by homeowners or rental insurance, which provide between $100,000 to $300,000 in liability of dog bites, according to the Insurance Information Institute. Dundov would not specify how much premiums rise from dog ownership itself.  But, she did disclose that dog ownership is a "standard" question that agents use to evaluate for a customer's insurance rate.   Rosenfeld said the average dog bite claims cost around $30,000, many of which were attacks on children.   "It's hard to put a specific value on those cases," he said. "There is a huge element of subjectivity, valuing what a scar is."   Some companies refuse coverage to owners of certain breeds. Daniel Workman of website Net Quote stated in an online report that Allstate Insurance Co.
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$40k of jewelry stolen, dog bite: Arlington Police Log, June 12

Speaking at 'Clean India 2013', organised by Sukuki Exnora on World Environment Day, Ms. Amala cited the records of the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) to state that there were no deaths due to stray dog bites in the last few years. But there might be instances of deaths in cases where people come to the city for treatment from other places. "Even dog bites reported in the city have come down by nearly 15,000 due to the sincere and coordinated effort of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC)," she said. Garbage Ms. Amala underscored the link between garbage and stray dogs and called upon residents to keep their colonies free of garbage heaps. She said the high plastic usage, which ends up in streets and garbage piles, causes severe problems for cattle.
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Dog bite fatalities on the wane: Amala Akkineni

The front door was left open while everyone was in the backyard and the jewelry was gone following the visit. 12:28 p.m., police responded to a crash with injury at Brattle Realty Trust on Grove Street. A woman picking up groceries for her parents who lived in Arlington crashed intoher car  the side of a 2008 Chevy Tahoe turning left from Grove Street onto Dudley Street. The head of the passenger in that car struck the window and he was transported to Mt. Auburn Hospital with a head injury; the driver's car sustained heavy driver's side damage and some damage to the passenger's side front door.
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