When you go to a friend’s house to visit, you expect this person to have control over his or her dog. You never anticipate the dog attacking and biting you.
However, when you suffer a dog bite when visiting a friend’s house, you have every legal right to pursue compensation for your medical treatment and punitive damages. Your first move can involve retaining one of the experienced Woodstock personal injury lawyers to represent you.
Filing an Insurance Claim
When you have a lawyer on retainer, you can file an insurance claim against the policy of your friend’s homeowners or renters coverage. Your friend may hesitate to offer this information because he or she knows the claim will raise the policy’s rate. Your friend may even go so far as to accuse you of causing the dog to bite you.
Still, your lawyer can use legal means to get the policy information so you can make a claim against it. You can then recover medical costs, as well as punitive damages and any lost income you incur as you heal from your dog bite.
Your attorney can also make sure you avoid incriminating yourself and taking the blame for the dog attack and resulting injury. You can rely on your attorney to act as your intermediary if negotiating with your friend is too distressful. Find out more about retaining Woodstock personal injury lawyers by contacting The Law Offices of Robert T. Edens, PC.
