Know Your Rights Before Going On A Dog Bite Lawsuit

By Sharon Weeks


Most of us loves to have our own pets, since they are always there to make us happy and even complete our lives from those people who left us. We are willing to give them a life which will make them at ease. We invested our time and affection to them and we do not want them to get hurt and top hurt others.

We should be responsible enough to take good care of them and we do not allow bad things that might possibly happened with them. But unfortunately, some instances that they lose their control and they harm other people or even the owner themselves. There are a lot of dog bite lawsuit Michigan because they strongly believe to exercise rights to the owners and to the animals.

In Michigan, they have a rule that covers dog bites and this is the Statute of Limitation, this will help to prove the liabilities of owner can have. You are given three years to file a case against the owner and if ever you over the deadline, the court will most likely not hear you out. So better check for the deadline and prepare yourself to file within the time span.

In order for this law to apply, the injury must surely cause by a bite and not some behavior. The victim did provoke or did not do anything against them, because the court will not appeal on it if you did something. The person must be in a public or in a lawfully private place when the bite occurred.

There are two things to be considered before you may select a case that you file against them. We have the strict liability which would simply implies that any owner is responsible for the trouble made by their dogs. It might impossible for them because some dogs did have any story about hurting others, but this should be brought to the court.

Negligence liability is identified as any form of harm or injury from the animal but did not received any bites from them. It you are tackled or attacked by them and you were badly injured then this one would apply to your situation. There is a big difference between the two of them, so you better know it in order for you defend yourself properly.

The owner can defend herself or himself from this kind situation if some things are violated as well. If the person bitten was provoking, teasing, or making the it angry and he or she was bite, therefore, if you can prove that this situations happened toward your dog, then you can be free from this responsibilities.

Another thing is when you have done trespassing to a different property. When you did not ask permission from the people living the area and an animal did attacked you, it is your lucky day. They are free from liabilities by having this kind of situation.

This can be a traumatic experience to the victim. People should be responsible enough to avoid this things to happen and they prevent their selves from getting harm. We are smarter than this animals to better act appropriately.




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