Blog Category - Dog Bites

Oct

Florida Dog Bite Laws: What’s Changed in 2025

Understanding how Florida dog bite laws work—and how they’ve recently changed is essential after a dog bite injury. Florida already had strict liability rules for dog owners, but recent updates add more enforcement tools and responsibilities, particularly for owners of aggressive...

Oct

Dog Bites in Florida: Legislative Measures for Protection

The United States Postal Service (USPS) recently released its annual report ranking states with the most dog bites involving postal carriers. Once again, dog bites in Florida have placed the state in the top ten. In 2023, there were over 5,800 incidents of dogs attacking mail car...

Oct

Florida Mail Carriers and Delivery Persons Beware of Dog Bites

Dog bites are a serious problem in Florida. However, the problem is not just confined to children or strangers. In the latest reflection of this, data regarding the number of mail carriers who suffered injuries due to dog bites in 2021 showed Florida in the top 10 states. This da...

Oct

What Happens if a Dog Bite Happens in a Public Place in Florida?

Dog bites overwhelmingly occur on private property like at a dog owner’s home. Your neighbor may be having you over for a barbecue when suddenly his or her normally friendly dog inexplicably becomes aggressive and bites you on the hand, causing a deep laceration that requires you...

Oct

Can a Dog Owner Blame a Victim for a Dog Bite in Florida?

Who is liable for a dog bite in Florida? You are at a neighbor’s house with your kids for a play date when your neighbor’s normally friendly dog growls at your three year old daughter before the dog bites her on the hand, causing blood to immediately start streaming down her hand...

Oct

Florida Dog Attacks: Does Signage Relieve Liability?

Your neighbor has a dog that always barks when you walk past her fenced-in yard; she has a big “Beware of Dog” sign on the fence. The dog goes crazy every time you and your kids walk anywhere in the vicinity of her house, even if it is across the street, and this scares not only...

Oct

Florida Ranked Second in the Country for Dog Bite Claims in 2018

Insurance giant State Farm recently conducted a survey that ranked the Sunshine State as having the second most dog bites of any state in the country in 2018. According to State Farm’s annual survey, prepared in connection with National Dog Bite Prevention Awareness Week in mid-A...

Oct

The Reality of Dog Bites in Florida

In an occurrence that can only be described as a tremendous tragedy, a ten-month-old baby was recently bitten in the head by a dog in Deerfield Beach and had to be airlifted to a local hospital for treatment for his injuries. According to an article from Local 10 news, the child...

Oct

Insurance Industry 2017 Data Shows Florida Is One of the Leading States for Dog Bite Incidents

A recent nationwide study showed that the number of dog bite incidents across the U. S. increased 2. 2 percent in 2017 when compared with 2016, and that Florida was one of the leading states for such incidents. The study, which was conducted by insurance industry trade group the In...