Dogs Put $489M Bite on Home Insurance Industry

Dog Bites Woman, Man Bites Dog

"More than 2 million children are bitten by dogs every year, and most bites are from their own dog or a dog they know well. The majority of bites to smaller children are in their face and head." Getty Images Insurers last year paid out $489 million for... View Full Size Getty Images Insurers last year paid out $489 million for claims involving dog bites in the home. The scenario that keeps Emily Patterson, animal welfare scientist for the American Veterinary Medical Association , awake at night, she says, is a very young child left alone with the family dog. Children are easy to injure, she notes.
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Fighting for Survivors of Dog Bite Attacks

Caren Henry was out walking her own dog when, This dog came racing across this yard, a big dog." The dog knocked her down and started biting her face, seriously injuring her nose. As the attack was happening, Caren's husband, Laine, was driving by. He immediately sprang into action: Caren turned and looked at me and I seen her face was nothing but blood, so I bit the dog literally in the nose and he let go and I grabbed our dog and I grabbed her and I put them in our pick-up and took off, he told the local NBC affiliate . The county has no vicious dog ordinance, so the dog who attacked Caren does not face the threat of being put down. [Shutterstock]
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Common adverse drug reactions (ADRs) (1% of patients) associated with the cephalosporin therapy include: diarrhea, nausea, rash, electrolyte disturbances, and/or pain and inflammation at injection site. Infrequent ADRs (0.11% of patients) include: vomiting, headache, dizziness, oral and vaginal candidiasis , pseudomembranous colitis , superinfection , eosinophilia , and/or fever. What happens when you have a penicillin allergy and a dog bite? Many of the patients in the study that were given inadequate therapy had a penicillin allergy. Of 13 such patients, only two received an appropriate alternative. The issue health care professions are concerned about are the large number of inadequate treatment scenarios. Is the population of your area underserved? Do clinicians come up with something from the $4 generic drug list that might work?
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Treating dog bites

As a result of this reality, people are harmed at an alarming rate in dog bite attacks. Below you will find a brief overview of the issues that relate to dog bite attacks both in San Diego and across the United States. You will also find information regarding theories of liability that arise when someone is bitten and badly injured in a dog bite attack. Dog Bite Attack Statistics As stated above, dog bite attacks occur at an alarming rate. Based on several estimates, itas believed that as many as 4.5 million dog bites occur in the United States every year, and that number appears to be rising. In addition, 850,000 people need some type of medical attention after this type of an attack, and 350,000 of these people need to report to an emergency room for treatment every year. Finally, itas estimated that these dog bite attacks lead to a total loss of approximately $1 billion every year in the United States.
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Dog bites woman: photo line up fails to catch canine crim

Jackie the five-year-old Jack Russell cross was picked out from a photo board of canine suspects after a jogger was bitten. A 44-year-old woman reported being bitten while she jogged in Claremont in February. The Magistrates Court in Hobart heard that when she reported the attack to the local council, she was asked to identify the dog from a photo line-up of possible canine offenders. Glenorchy Council's animal management officer told the court the technique had been used since a former police forensic officer came to work at the council. The accused dog's owner, Murray Brian Richards, who is also a former police officer, gave evidence his dog could not have been the culprit because she was on heat at the time and locked in a garage. Magistrate Catherine Rheinberger said canine identification had to be treated with the same caution applied to human identification.
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