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 carriers across the country. Florida, with 193 reported dog…
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 data just highlights how important it…
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 to go to the hospital and receive multiple…
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 while she screams….
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…
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-April, more information about which can be found here, statistics from…
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 thankfully was in stable…
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 Insurance Information Institute (III) and State Farm, the…
