Continuing Dog Bite Education for the Legal Profession & Insurance Adjustors
What Adjusters & Attorneys Need to Know to Successfully Defend Dog Bite Injury Claims
Seminar at Your Location!
Seminar Leader: Richard H. Polsky, Ph.D
I. Understanding the Causes of Dog Related Injuries
- Dogs and Cats as Companion Animals
- Dogs in society
II. Injuries Sustained to Victims Bitten by Dogs
- Review of research literature on the epidemiology of dog bites
- Types of injuries caused by aggression
- Types of injuries caused by Non-Aggression
III. Reasons Why Dogs Attack
- Aggressive behavior in dogs
IV. Dogs at High Risk to Cause Personal Injury
- Breed differences
- Factors indicating a propensity for aggression
- Problems in the home environment
V. Assessing the Risks
- Utilizing a behavioral scoring system
VI. How to Decrease the High Cost of Claims
- Understanding the Law
- Strict liability vs. negligence
- Examples of lawsuits resulting from dog related injuries
- Defenses under the law
VII. How to Investigating a Claim
- Who to contact and what to ask
- Examining the incident scene & the animal's home environment
- How to examine the dog
VIII. What You Need to Know to Settle a Claim
- The behavior of the victim and the severity of the injury
- The breed of the dog, its background and behavior
- What's a claim worth?
Contact Info:
Animal Behavior Counseling Services, Inc.
2288 Manning Ave.
Los Angeles, California 90064
Telephone: (310) 474-3776
Nationwide: (800) 605-2227
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