Dog bite verdicts and settlements

Dog bite verdicts & settlements

Year	Description	Outcome	Notes
2010	Criminal Trial Gainesville, FL	Verdict not guilty on all charges	Defendant accused of felony child abuse and principal defense was that the owner's dog, a 7 yo. male Dutch shepherd, inflicted the injuries. Verdict: Not guilty.
2010	Trial, Thomas v. Sosa, Case # BC398586, Superior Court, Los Angeles,Co. CA.	Verdict $982,000	Postal worker knocked-down by German shepherd and sustained broken wrist. Property owner found liable on basis of negligence,
2009	Trial, Middlesex, Co. New Jersey	Verdict $1,500,000	Plaintiff attacked by pit bull and sustained fairly severe injuries. Adward based on theory of strick liability and negligence.
2009	Trial, Rockland Co. CA.	Verdict $880,000	Rocklin County, California mayor found liable for injuries inflicted to his neighbor by doberman x labrador dog kept on his property by his daughter. The daughter was the owner of the dog, and both the dog and the daughter lived at the defendant's home. Liability determined based on actual knowledge the defendant had about the dog's dangerous nature.
2009	Settlement Washougal, WA.	Settlement $1,700,000	Rogers was mistakenly identified by a Kennewick police dog who followed the wrong scent into the backyard of a private residence where Rogers was sleeping before being attacked.
2010	Criminal Hearing Riverside County, CA.	Bench decision prior to trial	23 year-old mother vindicated for pit bull attack on infant son in which the victim's genitals were mutilated.
2011	Murphy v. Chesley; Case # 109CV157800, Superior Court, County of Santa Clara, CA.	$500,000 settlement prior to trial	German Shepherd attacked plaintiff making house repairs on property of defendant. A claim for punitive damages made by plaintiff which may have been the chief factor in settling for policy limits. There was a history of defendant's dog attacking neighborhood children prior to the incident in question. Physical damage to the plaintiff's leg was not severe, but permanent neurological damage was sustained.
2011	Pierce County, Washington	Verdict $2.2 million	Plaintiff tried to stop an attack on her two dogs by two pit bulls who entered her home for sliding glass door in August 2007. Verdict was apportioned between several defendants, one of which included animal control who previousto the incident had received numerous complaints about the dogs in question. More
2010	Civil trial Rusk County, TX.	Verdict $7,000,000	The verdict stems from civil action against dog owners whose 2 dogs, an American bulldog and a pit bull mix dog, killed a 10-year-old boy walking to a friend's house in June, 2009. The dogs escaped from the property of their owner. Plaintiff's counsel argued that the defendants were strictly liable due to knowledge of the prior dangerous tendencies in these dogs.