Boy, 17, awarded largest dog bite settlement in Ill. history

history Posted: A judge has awarded a Zion teen the largest dog bite settlement in state history. Lawyers for the 17-year-old say he will receive more than $1 million. Back in June of 2011, the teen was riding his bike when the bull mastiff bit him several times. The dog's owner was cited for the attack and the dog was put to sleep shortly after it happened. The previous record for a dog bite settlement was $835,000.
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Dogs Put $489M Bite on Home Insurance Industry

She apparently was caught in the crossfire. 636 Passengers on a flight from Reno had to get off their plane on a portable staircase at O'Hare International Airport on Monday, after the aircraft blew two tires while landing. 806 An Addison man has been charged with killing his wife during a domestic dispute over the weekend, and their son said he saw it all. 930 The Ventra card allows riders to use a single card for CTA and Pace transportation, according to a CTA release. 103 Illinois State Police Director Hiram Grau said his agency began preparing to oversee the concealed carry permit process when it became clear Illinois would have to allow people to carry firearms in public. 250 The 27-year-old mother of three was stabbed in the left arm by her children's father, only a few feet away from where Chicago police officers stood waiting on the front steps, thinking she was safe and out of harm's way.
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$1.125 Million Awarded To Victim Of Dog Bite

Salem mayor Gary Brown called for the pooch to be killed in July 2012 after the girl was bitten on the abdomen during a visit to a friend's house where Phineas lived, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ( http://bit.ly/13DJS5f) reported Friday. Brown, the mayor of the 5,000-resident city 125 miles south of St. Louis, concluded the dog needed to be put down, based on a police report and photos of the wound. But two dog-bite experts working for Phineas' owners say in new court filings that Phineas wasn't the culprit. They say the oval-shaped wound is too small, and the dental pattern isn't consistent with Phineas' teeth. "It's not even close," Dr. Kenneth Cohrn , a forensic dentist in Lake Lady, Fla., told the newspaper.
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Dog bite leads to legal tangle over yellow Lab

Dillow. The mother made a loud noise and tried to chase the dog away, Dillow said. The little girl grabbed the dog by the tail, and the dog turned around and bit her in the face. Emergency responders were dispatched to the childs home on North Street in Bluefield at about 1:45 p.m. The child was initially transported to Bluefield regional Medical Center. She is going to be sent outside the area to receive additional care, Dillow said. He did not specify as to where the child was sent for care. We recovered the dog, Dillow said. It is being held for a standard 10-day rabies watch at the animal shelter. Dillow said that the owner of the dog will be charged with violating the leash law and owning a vicious dog.
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Dog bites Bluefield toddler in face, owner to be charged

The cost to the insurance industry last year was $489 million--about one-third of all the money paid out for homeowners' liability claims overall. That figure, says the Insurance Information Institute , is up more than 50 percent since 2003. The number of bite claims last year topped 16,500. Half a billion dollars, though, does not begin to quantify the harm done by bites from Fifi, Rex, Laverne, Princess, Laddie-Boy and Busterin other words, from dogs in toto. Toto, too?
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