Are Dog Bite Cases Involving Children Minors Handled Differently?

At Richmond Vona, we treat dog bite cases involving children very, very seriously. Unfortunately, it’s often the case that we see injured children who are too young to speak for themselves, to comment on what happened to them. It’s imperative that your attorney gets involved right away and seeks witness statements, complete and thorough witness statements, investigating the scene, visiting the property to inspect for things like how the dog was penned or not penned and different things like that.

It’s very unfortunate that children have very, very soft skin and children often suffer very bad injuries from dog and bite cases. One of the things that we do for the children that we represent in dog bite cases is to ensure that we’re taking account for everything that’s going to be happening in the future with them. And that’s not only pain and suffering, but it’s also scarring. Children suffer terrible scars from dog bite cases, unfortunately.

And at the time of settlement, we don’t leave it and stop looking at what the scar is like at the time of settlement, but we enlist an expert to comment, offer medical opinion, a professional opinion on what the progress of that scar is going to be into the future. Will a child have it for the rest of their life? And in that same thread, we may also enlist an expert to assess for and offer an opinion on any emotional damage that the child may have from the experience.