Landlords and Dog Bites: Legal Responsibilities
Are Landlords responsible for Dog Bites? A Dog Bite Attorney Tells You the Truth! Can a landlord be held legally responsible where their tenant’s dog bites or attacks another tenant or person on the landlord’s rental property? The answer is given to you by an experienced dog bite attorney. As a landlord, allowing your tenants to have pets in the residential units results in additional obligations on the landlord. Landlords can potentially be held responsible (civilly liable) for damages if a person is bit or attacked by a tenant’s dog or other pet. Dogs can cause injury to persons and damage to personal property. Depending on the facts, a landlord can be held responsible to compensate a victim of a dog bite or attack under the Dog Owner’s Liability …