Dog attacks
Governed by a statute that removes most of what a claimant would ordinarily have to prove, leaving a small number of contested phrases.
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It just happened
The first days. What to do, what not to say, and which clocks have already started.
- After a dog attack: the dangerous dog statutes, and what actually happens to the dog
Minnesota's dangerous dog law is a separate system from the statute that pays damages. It has its own definition of owner, its own definition of provocation, a 14-day clock, and a destruction provision that does not require a prior declaration.
Making the claim
Fault, thresholds, damages, and what the adjuster on the other end is actually doing.
- Minnesota's dog bite statute: the two phrases that decide the case
Minn. Stat. § 347.22 makes a dog's owner liable without any showing of negligence, and the dog's history does not matter. Almost every contested Minnesota dog case turns instead on two phrases written into the statute itself.