What do you do when your three-month old son was just bitten in the face by the neighbor’s yellow lab? My friend looked at her son, now ten, as he played on the floor with their dogs. “What do you do?” she asked me again. Jaden had been playing on a blanket outside their home […]
If a dog bites you, against whom can you bring a claim? The owner of the dog is an obvious choice, but many tenants do not have renter’s insurance. Landlords can be held liable for dog bites/injuries under limited circumstances. By statute (R.C. 955.28), the “harborer” of a dog is liable. In the landlord-tenant context, a […]
