Gary settled a case earlier this year for over $38,000 for a woman who was attacked by German Shepherd and had $4,000 worth of medical care. Similarly, Mark Cantor resolved a case where an older man was knocked down by a dog not restrained by a leash. The man fractured his hip in the fall and Mark Cantor immediately filed a lawsuit. Mark used a theory of negligence per se when he argued that the unleashed dog was the cause of the injury, that the dog was not on a leash, that the law requires a leash, that because no leash was used it caused damages and the case resolved for over $100,000.00 after depositions were taken and before trial. Last fall we settled a case where a boy was bitten in the leg for $30,000. We have taught other lawyers how to handle these cases as well. We work with the client to establish the damages, including a lifetime of having the scar or future plastic surgery to ameliorate the scar. We even canvass neighborhoods where the dog attack occurred to prove prior attacks.
A child was bitten by a dog in the face in St. Charles, Missouri. He only had $1,000.00 worth of care. The child’s family hired another law firm who recommended a settlement of $10,000.00. Mark Cantor believed that the settlement too low and should not be accepted. The clients hired Cantor & Burger to pursue the claim and Mark successfully recovered over $58,000.00 for the child on the verge of trial. At Cantor & Burger we did what the other law firm did not. We filed a lawsuit, retained experts including a speech therapist because the dog had torn the Plaintiff’s lip, a plastic surgeon, and others in order to maximize the recovery of this vicious animal attack.
Mark Cantor represented an older gentleman who was walking his dog, a small poodle. The man’s neighbor allowed their large dogs to run out of their home and attack the small dog that was on a leash. Mark’s client’s small dog ran behind his owner and tangled his legs in the leash, causing him to fall. He broke his hip. We used the theory of law called negligence per say, meaning that the owner is negligent if they violate an ordinance. St. Louis County has a leash law and because the neighbor’s dog was allowed out of the home without a leash which was the direct cause of our client’s injury, we were able to successfully recover over $100,000.00 for the Plaintiff.
