Our law firm was not involved in the personal injury lawsuit described in this article.

A recent Washington Court of Appeals decision considered arguments for landlord liability for dog bite injury.  The plaintiff was injured in a common areas by a dog owned by another tenant. The plaintiff claimed that the dog had attacked other tenants in the past and that the landlord refused to evict the dog owner or take other corrective actions. The plaintiff named both the dog owner tenant and the landlord in a lawsuit. The trial court dismissed the landlord. The plaintiff appealed.  The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court.[1] Read the rest of this entry »

A four-year-old girl was bitten and mauled by a US Customs dog recently in the baggage claim area of Dulles airport in our nation’s capital. The dog was being trained by US Customs officials. It unknown why the dog attacked the four-year-old girl, who was treated at a local hospital. Read the rest of this entry »