Home Insurers Bitten by $350M in Dog Claims; Average Claim Tops $24K

June 25, 2008

  • June 27, 2008 at 2:37 am
    Lawyer says:
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    Yea, I do, why?

  • June 27, 2008 at 3:29 am
    John Smythe says:
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    I was doing an informal study of the level of knowledge of participants providing feedback in random Insurance Journal articles.

    No need to be actually informative and respond substantively.

  • June 27, 2008 at 3:43 am
    Lawyer says:
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    OK man, whatever floats your boat.

  • June 30, 2008 at 7:41 am
    Teacher Fan Too says:
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    I think the original poster of that comment is the true idiot.

  • June 30, 2008 at 11:12 am
    Shield says:
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    No, I don’t think you automatically deserve money. I think the dog should be put down, and the kids medical bills should be payed. Thats all.

  • June 30, 2008 at 11:22 am
    Shield says:
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    If the child is mauled…ie…badly bitten, multiple bites, scaring in visible places, then maybe the child deserves a settlement…but a bite…probably not.

  • June 30, 2008 at 11:28 am
    Shield says:
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    Those dogs days would be numbered. Thats a dangerous situation that needs to be dealt with. I’d wait until the neighbor was away and the dogs would disappear.

  • June 30, 2008 at 1:06 am
    Smitty says:
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    and insurance companies are courting Hispanics, this increase was a predictible event.

    Dog bites should be excluded.

  • June 30, 2008 at 1:16 am
    h4874 says:
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    Have we all become so numb to high costs that $350M sounds small ? It is a very alarming figure and sadly the only people paying attention are the insurance carriers and the lawyers. Blame can be spread everywhere. However, you must first leap to the assumption that all owners are smarter than their dogs. They often are the same ones that think their chldren can do no wrong either.

  • June 30, 2008 at 2:22 am
    Teacher Fan says:
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    For crying out loud, what makes an insurance professional refer to a public school teacher in this manner?



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