Maison Law helps dog bite victims in Tracy, CA. We make sure clients receive enough to pay for the best care available and to support their families while they can’t work.
If you have been injured, please contact Maison Law of Tracy for a free case consultation. It’s an easy, no-obligation way to get your questions answered and find out what you should be compensated for.
Deciding If You Need a Lawyer for a Dog Bite
California protects your right to file a dog bite claim yourself. But when a serious injury is involved, a lawyer can help you hold a dog owner fully responsible. A lawyer also has the experience to help you maximize the support an insurer must provide. This is often much more than you could secure on your own.
With a serious bite wound, you will need medical care and physical therapy for much longer. This raises the medical bills involved, and in turn, insurers for at-fault dog owners fight harder against accepting blame.
Your lawyer helps you block their tactics to keep you from earning the support that’s fair.
We can help you earn what you need for a full recovery when you suffer these serious injuries and others:
- Deep puncture wound
- Deep cuts
- Infected wounds
- Bone fractures in the hand and other parts of the body
- Soft tissue tears in muscles, tendons, ligaments
- Bites leading to a permanent disfigurement
- Any serious dog bite injury inflicted on a child
Your Tracy dog bite lawyer would fully investigate your accident. Your lawyer can help in tracking down the dog’s owner and forcing the owner to accept responsibility. Your lawyer is also ready with medical evidence from your doctors in case an insurer attempts to downplay the damage a dog caused.
Schedule a Free Consultation with a Real Dog Bite Attorney
You may have had little time to consider how you’ll hold a dog owner responsible while dealing with a painful injury or helping your child recover from a frightening attack.
Maison Law offers a free, confidential case review to go over your best options. It’s a no-obligation chance to get your questions answered. If we can’t help you earn more for your case, we’ll be upfront about that. But if we can help you bring home more in support so you or a loved one can heal, you should know that you don’t have to worry about paying an attorney’s fee at such a difficult time.
We aren’t paid unless we win your case for you. Then, our fee comes out of the settlement check insurers are forced to write for you.
Finding Support for Tracy Dog Bite Victims
Dog bites can involve devastating wounds that can leave victims unable to use their hands, their arms, or perhaps unable to walk on a damaged ankle or knee.
Victims must receive support for the medical bills stacked up on their kitchen tables now and those still to come in the future.
A skilled attorney would be demanding these hardships and others be compensated in a dog bite settlement check:
- Medical Care now and any that may be required in the future.
- Lifelong support for a dog bite victim who suffers a physical disability.
- Full support for a victim who suffers a permanent disfigurement due to a dog bite wound. This might include money to pay for restorative surgery.
- Travel costs for appointments with surgeons and other medical specialists. These providers may be in larger cities outside of Tracy. The trips can get expensive, especially when victims are in casts and wheelchairs and unable to drive themselves.
- Compensation for the physical pain a victim may suffer for months, years, or a lifetime.
- Support for emotional trauma victims includes depression and anxiety. The PTSD symptoms that may repeatedly bring victims back to the moment of an attack.
- Reimbursement for all paychecks some victims will lose while unable to perform job duties.
Frequently Asked Questions
What special support do child dog bite victims require?
When a victim is a child, Maison Law would be demanding additional support to last for years if necessary. Child victims may need medical attention as they grow, especially in their teen years. Because old dog bite wounds (especially broken bones) can cause issues with their development into adulthood. Any settlement must include enough to pay for additional surgeries that may be needed as a child matures. Children can also develop phobias of animals after such a scary attack. A settlement for a child must include money to help the child get Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Can families receive support after losing someone to a deadly dog attack?
Families can ask for wrongful death benefits after a tragic dog bite incident. The family would be able to seek support for funeral costs and for paying leftover medical bills. Families should receive help in replacing the income a victim may have supported everyone with through a job. Loved ones should also receive help in dealing with the loss of care and guidance. Parents who lose a child to a tragic dog attack must receive support for the loss of companionship they’ll always feel.
Who is responsible for a dog bite in California?
In California, dog bite victims can hold dog owners liable in most cases. Under “strict liability,” dog owners are responsible for bites in almost every situation. Victims can file claims and seek help with recovery costs, even if the dog had no record of previous bites. Victims could collect support unless they had been trespassing at the time of the attack or had provoked the dog.
Who pays for dog bite settlements?
Generally, it’s a homeowners insurance policy or a renters insurance policy that pays out a settlement in a dog bite claim. If the dog owner had no insurance, the victim may have to file a lawsuit against the owner directly. This usually isn’t an ideal solution, because the owner may not have enough in assets to help cover all of the victim’s doctor bills and lost income. A skilled attorney can help and often finds other parties who may have to share in the liability, providing more sources to draw support from to get a victim’s bills paid.
Contact a Tracy Dog Bite Accident Attorney
We never want to see vulnerable dog bite victims end up with far less than they should and end up having to pay for their own care out of pocket.
Let us handle your case and fight back on your behalf. We file your claim and demand more. We also strive to keep you out of the frustrating process so you can focus on healing and getting back to your normal life.
We’re proud to offer free consultations and case reviews to all San Joaquin County victims who have suffered serious dog bite injuries. Tell us what happened and how your injury has affected your life. Then let’s start taking the steps to earn justice for you and your family.
Remember, if you need our help to get what’s fair after a frightening incident, you don’t need any up-front money. We don’t get paid unless we win your dog bite case for you. Then our fee is covered by the settlement check that an insurer must write for you.
