Pages On: Animal Attacks

Dog owner fined £1,000 after attack in bar

Posted: 31 December 2015

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Head and Brain Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Restaurant Accidents

A dog owner from north Wales has been ordered to pay a young girl £1,000 in compensation after his dog attacked her in a bar. The German Pointer had been wandering around inside The Cuckoo Club last August when a nine-year-old girl bent down to stroke it. CCTV footage from inside the bar shows the dog snapping at the girl’s face, leaving her with serious bite marks on her nose. Owner of the dog, called Katie, 65-year-old David Chapman admitted to owning a dangerously out of control dog that caused…

Family pet attacks blind man and his guide dog

Posted: 15 November 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Hand Injuries

A family dog has been issued a ‘suspended death sentence’ after it attacked a blind man and his guide dog last year.  The Staffordshire terrier and Boxer cross, Sally, attacked James Garry and his German Shepherd, Jack, in June last year, leaving them both with puncture injuries. An expert from Guide Dogs Cymru examined Jack (aged 4) after the traumatic attack to make sure he was still a fit companion for Mr Garry. 45-year-old Michael Squire, a police worker from Old Colwyn, admitted to owning a dangerously out of control dog…

Police dog attacks on innocents increasingly common

Posted: 26 July 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Public Place Accidents, Wrongful & Accidental Death

New figures have revealed that in the last three years alone, around 150 people have been bitten by a police dog. This issue was raised after 73-year-old Irene Collins was bitten by a police dog in her home last week. She died in hospital shortly after the incident. The dog that bit Mrs Collins in her Middlesbrough home has been removed from duty, but a decision regarding its future in the service is yet to be decided. It was heard that the dog’s handler, who had been on leave at the time…

Dog owner banned for ten years after 6 year old is bitten

Posted: 24 July 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Leg Injuries

The owner of a dog named Chaos that bit a six-year-old girl has been banned from owning dogs for the next decade. David Rice, the owner of the American Bulldog, admitted that he had recognised aggressive tendencies in his pet before the accident happened. The girl was attacked in December of last year, suffering fairly major physical injuries and psychological damage. The dog had been in the garden area of Mr Rice’s close when it attacked the young girl last year. It supposedly lunged at her body, gripping her in its mouth. Procurator…

Woman fights for £300k in compensation following elephant attack

Posted: 25 June 2014

Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad, Animal Attacks

One of the country’s top lawyers is to receive £300,000 in personal injury compensation after she was attacked by a rampaging elephant while on safari in Africa. She has sued the safari firm and her guide following the accident. Caroline Pratte suffered multiple fractures and abdominal wounds in the attack that happened on an exclusive holiday in South Luangwa National Park in Zambia in October 2010. Ms Pratte’s partner Andrew Ness has also claimed for ‘psychological injury’ after witnessing the attack, despite the fact that he was not physically injured. The couple is…

Dangerous dog to be destroyed after attacking elderly woman

Posted: 8 June 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks

Magistrates ordered that a dog is to be destroyed after it attacked an elderly woman and her two Jack Russells. The owner of the Staffordshire bull terrier Mel Mel, Tara Wai Ling Pang, was found guilty of allowing a dangerous dog to be out of control in a public place and causing injury. The attack left grandmother Samantha Ripley severely injured and covered in blood, while one of her Jack Russell’s, Shelby, was fatally wounded, and the other injured. Ms Ripley said: “My memories will never heal. She was my baby.” It…

£2m paid-out by council to injured staff

Posted: 31 May 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Repetitive Strain Injury, Spine & Back Injuries, Workplace Injuries, Workplace Slip

Leicester City Council has paid out £2million in compensation to injured staff members over the last five years. Figures released by the council showed that a total of 151 claims had been settled with injured employees since 2006. This cost the council around £700,000, and a total of £1.23 million in legal fees. The council said that all of the individual claims were fully investigated before payouts were made to employees. Injuries that received compensation from the authority included injured backs caused by heavy lifting, repetitive strain injuries, injuries suffered from…

Police officer suffers vicious dog bite to face

Posted: 26 May 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Head and Brain Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A man has been fined after his dog attacked a police officer’s face. The white terrier was originally a stray, but van driver Nicholas Edwick (27) started frequently spotting it around Wapshott Road in Egham Hythe. When the dog started visiting his garden, Mr Edwick started feeding and caring for the animal, but he denied the fact that the dog was his. The attack happened at around 1pm on 22nd October last year when the dog was spotted behaving aggressively in a family’s garden. It had escaped through Mr Edwick’s fence…

Postwoman urges owners to control dogs following attack

Posted: 15 January 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Leg Injuries, Workplace Injuries

29-year-old Helen Burgin has made a plea to dog owners to control their pets after she was left “scarred for live” following a brutal dog attack. The postwoman had been delivering mail on the Moss estate in August when a dog attacked her, leaving her with severe leg injuries. It was heard that at the time of the accident, children were present and the Royal Mail worker was left with two severe puncture wounds in her leg. The owner of the 9-year-old collie cross Staffordshire bull terrier, Patch, appeared at the…

Family dog bites two-year-old girl

Posted: 9 August 2013

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Head and Brain Injuries, Leg Injuries

A toddler has been transferred to a Sheffield children’s hospital following a dog attack. The incident occurred shortly after 10am on Tuesday in Rawmarsh, Rotherham, despite the rottweiler being on a lead at the time. The dog attack caused the two-year-old serious head injury and leg injuries, after which she was taken directly to Rotherham district general hospital by ambulance. She has since been moved to Sheffield children’s hospital. Police said that the dog was on the lead with a girl and woman at the time of the attack, and is believed…

Petition handed to Downing Street regarding dangerous dogs

Posted: 17 July 2013

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Personal Injury, Wrongful & Accidental Death

Following the many deaths that this county’s seen involving dangerous dogs, the families of children killed in dog attacks have handed a petition to Downing Street, calling for action. Families include those of Jade Anderson and Paul Massey. Jade Anderson (14) was mauled to death in March after four dogs attacked her in a friend’s home near Wigan. Four-year-old Paul Massey was another dog attack victim – he was killed in 2009 in Liverpool.  The relatives of these children, and others, travelled to London to hand in the petition of over 4,500…

Dog Bites & Attacks - Animal Injuries Compensation

Posted in: Animal Attacks

Dogs are known to bite over 200,000 people each year in the UK. Since the rules laid out in the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 were tightened up, more offenders will receive more serious sentences, including prison if they are held to have been responsible for injuries caused by their pet. If an animal causes injury, loss or damage it may be possible for you to claim compensation, often against the dog’s owner, and our team of specialist Wakefield personal injury solicitors will be able to guide you on how to…