Personal Injury Q and A

A Chihuahua was killed in a dog bite incident in Richmond as it tried to protect two children from a vicious pit bull attack. According to an Associated Press news report, two pit bulls entered a home on June 25, 2010 after they escaped from their own yard by chewing off a fence. Mayda Estrella says the family's Chihuahua, Manchas, jumped in between the pit bulls and her children -- a 4-year-old boy and a newborn baby.

Supervisors in San Bernardino County have voted to require all pit bulls to be spayed or neutered after a series of dog bite incidents in the area. According to a news report in the Los Angeles Times, San Bernardino County has seen four fatal pit bull attacks just in the last five years. This includes a 3-year-old Apple Valley boy who was mauled by a pit bull and a similar dog attack, which killed a 2-year-old boy.

A woman shot and killed a pit bull during a dog bite incident the morning of June 19, 2010, CBS News report. The dog attack occurred at 835 West Rosecrans Avenue in South Los Angeles.

Two-year-old Nathan Aguirre was killed in a dog bite incident in his San Bernardino home after he was attacked by the family's pit bull. According to a news report in The San Bernardino Sun, the incident occurred when Nathan, his father and the dogs had been playing the evening of May 27, 2010, and the dad went inside the house momentarily.

Three people were injured, one seriously, in a dog bite incident in Stockton, the afternoon of May 16, 2010, The Stockton Record reports.

I came across a moving and informative E-Book titled "Dangerous by Default," written by Anthony Solesky, father of dog bite victim Dominic Solesky, who was brutally mauled by a pit-bull in an alley near his home in Baltimore.

A man has been seriously injured after a dog bite incident in Los Angeles.

A bicyclist has been injured in a Newport Beach car accident, after he was hit by a car at the intersection of Jamboree Road and Bison Avenue the morning of December 9, 2009, The Orange County Register reports. The driver of the car did not stop and left the scene of the accident. The bicycle [...]

The city of Auburn, California, is considering new dangerous dog regulations after a teenager was injured last September in a dog bite incident when four pit bulls attacked her. According to a news10 report, council members are looking into passing new laws to regulate aggressive dog breeds. But pit bull owners and activists are concerned [...]

The California dog bite lawyers at BISNAR | CHASE have represented numerous victims of dog attacks, a majority of whom were injured by pit bulls and rottweilers. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which releases statistics about dog bite incidents, does not mention dog breeds any more probably because of pressure from pit bull advocates, [...]