Pages On: Animal Attacks

Dog to be destroyed following severe injuries

Posted: 15 August 2015

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Arm Injury, Head and Brain Injuries

A dog has had a destruction order placed on him after biting a four-year-old girl at a rugby match last year and causing severe injury. Paddy the collie had the destruction order put on him last week at the Guildford Crown Court after his owner, John Trodden, pleaded guilty to owning a dangerously out of control dog that caused injury in a public place. The little girl, who remains anonymous, has been left with serious facial scars following the attack last year. It was heard in court that the incident…

Police paid out £450,000 in PI claims

Posted: 24 June 2015

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Faulty Work Equipment, Workplace Injuries

Following a Freedom of Information request, it has been uncovered that West Yorkshire Police has paid out more than £450,000 through personal injury claims in five years. These claims only include payouts to police officers and civilian staff and are drawn from between January 2008 and December 2013. The total figure of £450,000 can be broken down into key areas, with £315,987 being paid out for slips, trips or falls, £52,042 paid for ‘lifting or carrying’ injuries, £32,700 for ‘defective equipment, furniture or premises’ and £12,620 for dog bites. The…

More than five a week bitten by police dogs

Posted: 30 October 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Workplace Injuries

New figures have revealed that police dogs bite more than five members of the public every week in London alone.  Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act found that compensation paid out to those bitten by police dogs has doubled in the past three years to around £250,000. Lawyers involved in the report said that more has to be done within the force to prevent these attacks from happening. It was highlighted that within these three years, Met Police dogs have bitten a total of 827 people – with…

Dog attack sees two hospitalised

Posted: 16 September 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Hand Injuries

A dog attack earlier this month saw two people hospitalised.  The attack happened in Newbury on the 4th of September when two terriers attacked a couple of dog walkers.  Both victims suffered serious injuries and required hospital treatment.  The two victims, friends John Bremner and Georgina Warren, had been walking their own dogs when the incident happened.  It was heard that the terriers first attempted to attack their pets, but then attacked the owners.  The Staffordshire Bull Terrier and the American Pit Bull had both escaped from their owner’s home…

Reducing dog attacks on postal workers

Posted: 27 November 2012

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Workplace Injuries

Royal Mail has welcomed an independent report calling for new legislation with tougher legal sanctions to be introduced against owners of dogs which attack postmen and women. Over 3000 postmen and women were attacked across the UK by dogs from April 2011 to April 2012. The report highlights that the legal sanctions currently available in England and Wales when dogs attack people on private property are largely limited to action against the dog, e.g.  issue of a control order or an order that the dog be destroyed. Tougher measures are…

Dog & Animal Injury Compensation

Posted in: Animal Attacks

Being attacked by a pet such as a dog or another animal, for example at the zoo, or a kick from a horse, can be quite a traumatic experience. Many people are not aware that if you are injured because of such an attack then you could be entitled to claim compensation. An injury can be physical, psychological or both and the compensation will be paid out by either the pet’s owners or by their insurance company. Animal Attack Injury Claims You can make a personal injury claim because animal…