Los Angeles animal behavior expert, Richard Polsky, Ph.D. assists attorneys in the development of behavioral arguments regarding personal injury caused by dogs. Dr. Polsky will review discovery, prepare declarations and reports, and examine the dog and attack location for the purposes of rendering scientific animal behavior expert opinion. Analysis of canine aggression, product liability cases, dangerous and vicious dogs, owner negligence, dog bite reconstruction, police dog attack, and olfactory capabilities of police dogs used in suspect apprehension. Both criminal and civil, plaintiff or defense. Available nationwide for legal consultation.

Typical canine bite & cat bite lawsuit questions include:

• Dog bite provocation?
  
• Negligence: Dog carelessly managed?
• Did the dog possess dangerous tendencies?
• Plaintiff's version believable?
• Dog attack foreseeable?
• Did landlord have actual knowledge?
• Behavioral basis for punitive damages?
  

Animal behavior, legal & epidemiological abstracts

Animal Behavior Abstracts

1. Bite force in dogs & canines is difficult to calibrate
2. Family pit bull kills pregnant woman in California
3. Collection of forensic evidence in dog bite cases
4. Software teaches children dog bite prevention
5. Concerns raised about the aggressive nature of the Boerboel
6. Canadian dog bite fatality on 10-year-old boy on Indian reserve
7. Irony of fate in fatal dog mauling in Slavonia
8. Dog trainers vs. animal behaviorists as dog bite experts
9. Archives

Legal Abstracts

1. A behavioral perspective on punitive damages in dog bites cases
2. Novel statistical technique applied to analysis of breed-specific legislation
3. Jury awards $2.2 million to pitbull attack victim in Washington
4. Man bites dog in Arizona
5. Dog attack or child abuse?
6. Californian mother vindicated in dog bite genital mutilation to infant son
7. Wolf hybrids ruled dangerous by nature in Canadian judicial ruling
8. Archives

Epidemiological Abstracts

1. Alaska dog bite statistics
2. Misidentification of pit bulls 
3. Cost for dog bite insurance claims in 2008
4. Dog bites and posttraumatic stress in children
5. Pulling dogs may injure people
6. Survey finds few dogs actually bite people
7. Blunt injury from dog bites happen frequently
8. Newborn infant mauled in bizarre dog bite incident
9. The extent of the dog bite problem today
10. Archives

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