You don’t have to be bitten by a dog to be injured by a dog.  If a dog attacks you, wrestles you to the ground or scratches you, or hurts you in any other way, you can still bring a claim against the dog owner or the person that’s in control of that dog for failing to maintain control of that dog. My name is Robert Mazow, I’m a partner of Mazow McCullough.  If you’ve been hurt or a family member has been hurt as a result of somebody else’s negligence, call us.  The right lawyer makes all the difference.

After being bitten by a dog the very first thing you want to do is seek medical attention. You want to make sure that the dog has got its appropriate shots, that your not going to be dealing with a rabies incident. The next thing you should do is contact the police department to make sure that this dog does not have any problem with it and this dog’s appropriate papers are in place. The next thing you should do is contact the dog owner or the person in control of that dog and let them know that you want their insurance information.

If you have been bitten by a dog and you’ve been injured by that bite, you are entitled to compensation by either the dog owner and/or the person who was in control of that dog. The bite needs to obviously have caused some form of damage to be compensable.

The number one misconception in the state of Massachusetts involving dog bite attacks is whose going to pay the claim? Who’s going to compensate you for your injuries? And often times, there is no insurance coverage available. Either the specific owner did not involve the insurance company or fill out the documents on their insurance application involving the dog or notifying the insurance company that they owned a dog. That may allow the insurance company to deny the claim. At the end of the day, you may be left pursuing the owner of the dog personally to compensate you for your injuries. If you’ve been injured, you need legal assistance and you have questions. You deserve answers to those questions and you deserve the best. Call our offices.