Pages On: Animal Attacks
Animals are one of nature’s greatest gifts, but their nature can be somewhat hazardous to humans. A poorly trained or abused dog is likely to have detrimental behaviour towards people, and can bite and seriously injure them. If an animal attacks you, and there is sufficient evidence for conviction, then the owner is liable, and you will be entitled to personal injury compensation.
Young girl awarded £1k following dog attack
Posted: 31 December 2015
Posted in: Animal Attacks, Head and Brain Injuries
A nine-year-old girl from Old Colwyn has been awarded £1,000 in compensation after a dog bit her on the face, leaving her with injuries to her nose. Prosecutor Nia Lloyd said that the young girl had simply been stroking the dog as it wandered around inside The Cuckoo Club last August. CCTV footage shows the dog snapping at the young girl when she bent down to pat it. Owner of the German Pointer called Katie, 65-year-old David Chapman, admitted to owning a dangerously out of control dog that caused injury.…
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Dog to be destroyed following pensioner bite
Posted: 25 August 2015
Posted in: Animal Attacks, Leg Injuries
A family dog has been branded a “weapon” and a “wild animal” after it attacked and injured an elderly woman. The rescue dog, Buster, attacked 72-year-old Jean Holmes while she admired a plant display at a Lidl supermarket in Carlisle earlier this year. The 13-year-old Lurcher’s owner, David Stephenson, said that the dog had always been placid and friendly in the house, but admitted to owning an out-of-control dog that caused serious injury in court last week. It was heard at the Carlisle magistrates court that Mrs Holmes had recognised…
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Woman fined over dangerous dog
Posted: 29 August 2014
Posted in: Animal Attacks, Leg Injuries
A woman has been fined after the dog she was in charge of viciously attacked a neighbour. Theresa Miskimmin had been in charge of the dog, ‘Whinney’, when the accident happened last year. Her neighbour, Dawn Johnson, suffered multiple injuries after the dog jumped up and bit her in the middle of the street. It was heard that the dog escaped for Ms Miskimmin’s garden in Leigh before attacking Ms Johnson. However, the attack was not reported as she only suffered minor injuries. This year, however, on the 25th of…
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Over half a million paid out by police force
Posted: 25 August 2014
Posted in: Animal Attacks, Asbestos Exposure, Criminal Injury and Assault, Faulty Work Equipment, Public Place Accidents, Workplace Injuries, Workplace Slip
A total of £589,000 has been paid out in compensation and legal fees by West Midlands Police in 2013/14. Among the 26 personal injury claims made against the force, officers injured during personal safety training exercises made up three of the successful claims. On top of this, other successful claimants included those who had injured themselves moving furniture, tripping in a hole in the office floor and falling from a faulty office chair. Of the half a million paid out, £328,100 was paid in compensation, and £260,900 was paid to…
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Police compensation triples in one year
Posted: 3 June 2014
Posted in: Animal Attacks, Public Place Accidents, Shoulder Injuries, Workplace Injuries
New figures have revealed that compensation paid out to victims of policing issues in Oxfordshire had tripled in the last year. With claims including police-dog bites and psychological injuries, Thames Valley Police has paid out more than £69,000 since the beginning of 2012. Members of the public have won a total of 70 cases against the force. One solicitor commented on the figures, arguing that the number of compensation claims against the police force show a serious failing. The political director at the Taxpayers’ Alliance also commented, saying: “Authorities must…
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Dog breeder fined over savage dogs
Posted: 1 May 2014
Posted in: Animal Attacks
The owner of two vicious dogs has been fined after they escaped from their compound in Bolton last year, attacking a woman and her two Jack Russels. Sean Stockton was fined at Bolton Crown Court after pleading guilty to owning a dog that was dangerously out of control in a public place which caused a personal injury. It was heard at Bolton Crown Court that 48-year-old Stockton keeps and breeds Akita dogs at a compound near his rural home at Aldreds Farm, Jacks Lane, Westhoughton. On 20 September 2013 two…
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Women bailed following fatal dog attack
Posted: 3 June 2013
Posted in: Animal Attacks, Criminal Injury and Assault, Wrongful & Accidental Death
After many complaints about dogs “damaging his garden fence”, 79-year-old Clifford Clarke was mauled to death, by what appeared to be a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, in the garden of his own home. Two women, from Mr. Clarke’s hometown of Clubmoor in Liverpool, had been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, but have recently been released on bail. The women, of 27 and 28, had also been registered as offenders under the Dangerous Dog Act. Mr. Clarke was supposedly cooking dinner when the dog got through his garden fence. A post-mortem examination…
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Recommendations for tackling dog attacks on postal workers
Posted: 27 November 2012
Posted in: Animal Attacks
An independent inquiry into dog attacks on postal workers has published its report, which calls for tougher legislation against the owners of dangerous dogs. The Langley Report highlights that over 3000 postmen and women were attacked across the UK by dogs from April 2011 to April 2012, and that current legal protection from these attacks is limited. The report calls on Parliament to repeal current legislation and provide a new statute that will enable criminal sanctions to be taken against owners of dogs which attack people, wherever the attack takes…
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Animal Attack Compensation Claims in Manchester
Posted in: Animal Attacks
Animal attacks, such as bites from dogs, are often the result of the owner’s negligence. If you are injured because of an animal attack, and it was in no way your fault, then you can make a claim for compensation, usually against the negligent owner (or their insurance company). An example of an owner’s negligence would be failure to muzzle a dog, particularly if they are aware that the dog has a history of attacking or biting people or if the dog is covered by the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.…
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