Call Us Now : (901) 526-2126
While some wounds may heal quickly, a more severe dog bite may dramatically alter your life. You may experience physical, emotional, and financial losses that may impair how you live your life.
An experienced dog bite attorney from Gatti, Keltner, Bienvenu & Montesi could help you seek compensation for all types of dog bite injuries in Memphis. We could meet with you to understand the impact the canine attack has had on your life to help you fight for a fair damages award or settlement.
Being attacked by a dog can result in severe physical trauma, with the most common one being skin injuries. Dog attacks often cause deep cuts, lacerations, abrasions, and scrapes. Depending on the severity and length of the attack and the strength of the dog’s bite force, you may also suffer deep puncture wounds that lead to muscle and tendon damage. Deep bites can also result in tissue loss from destruction of all skin layers and underlying muscles. You may require reconstructive surgery and skin grafts to help minimize scarring. Children often suffer the most grievous facial scars. Kids may startle dogs, and their faces are right near a dog’s mouth. Because they are so much smaller, kids are often unable to fend off a dog attack and more apt to suffer facial wounds than adults.
Apart from skin injuries, other risks include broken bones and head injuries because the force of a running dog can violently knock you down. Deep lacerations and tears in your skin can damage the nerves, which can lead to loss of mobility and sensation as well as pain. If you leave any of these injuries untreated, you may suffer a serious infection or disease.
Our Memphis attorneys could work closely with your doctors and other medical experts to discover the extent of your physical injuries from the dog attack and how your prognosis may affect your health in the future.
Dog attacks may also lead to debilitating emotional post-traumatic stress. Some survivors of dog attacks develop such anxiety around dogs that they cannot easily go out in public. Mental anguish can also occur. You may find it difficult to cope with your body after a dog bite, particularly if you have mobility or other limitations or disfiguring scars. Nightmares, insomnia, and other sleep difficulties are also common after surviving a serious canine attack.
Exposure therapy and other types of mental health therapy to treat emotional wounds may help you learn to be around dogs. However, treatment can be costly, which is why it is essential to work with an attorney from our firm serving the Memphis area who knows how to fight aggressively to recover damages for all kinds of dog bite injuries.
Canine attacks result in many different types of dog bite injuries in Memphis, which can dramatically alter your life. Our experienced legal team could help you fight for fair compensation to cover the cost of your physical, emotional, and financial losses.
Talk to our lawyers at Gatti, Keltner, Bienvenu & Montesi and let us fight for you to recoup money for your losses and rebuild your life.
(901) 526-2126