Animal Attack

Everyday all across the UK people are injured by dogs as well as other animals. The most common animal attack claims come as a result of dog bites. Being bitten by a dog could leave you with severe injury, especially to your neck and head. These injuries could cause serious long term damage. Skin disorders, brain damage and broken bones are just a handful of the complications that you could be facing after an animal attack.

If you have been a victim of an animal attack in the last 3 years then you could be entitled to compensation. Personal injury compensation after an animal attack can be claimed firstly for the injuries that you have sustained as well as any medical expenses that you have occurred and your loss of earning whilst you have been recovering.

In recent years there has been a lot of publicity surrounding the ownership of dogs such as rottweilers and pit bulls. However due to the dangerous dogs act 1991 if you are the owner of certain breeds they have to be muzzled when out in public as well as being registered and micro-chipped. If you become the victim of an animal attack from one of these dogs that are registered under the dangerous dogs act then the chances of your compensation claim being a success are extremely high.

Compensation claims for animal attacks can be hard to win as there are factors that need to be taken into consideration such as was the attack provoked? Does the animal involved in the attack have a history of bad behaviour and incidents of a similar nature? If you have been attacked by an animal that doesn’t have a history of any other attacks or similar behaviour then the chance of your compensation claim becoming a success is reduced. You need to be able to show that the animal is a danger to society.

Sadly the results of an animal attack never end well and the chances of the attack resulting in being fatal is high. The injuries that are sustained from an animal attack will take a lot of time to heal and in a lot of cases will involve numerous operations to put them right. This will seriously affect your life and alter your daily activities as well as leaving you out of work for a length of time whilst your injuries heal.

Statistically speaking children are the most likely to become the victims of an animal attack as they are the most inexperienced in dealing with animals. Two thirds of fatal animal attacks happen to children and over half of the animal attacks that need medial attention affect children. In this instance you can claim compensation on your child’s behalf as you will have to be out of work to care for them.

If you or any member of your family have been injured as the result of an animal attack you could be entitled to claim for compensation. Accident Consultant are experts in no win no fee personal injury compensation claims with many years experience in dealing with animal attack cases.

If you would like more information about animal attacks then visit our main site, Accident Consult for more information on Animal Attack Compensation Claims or if you would like to start a compensation claim then fill in our online claim form to the right of this page or call us today on 08081 68 69 70.