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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's what would happen in my company - and we have had dog bites, so I know this.  Our employee would be required to file a workers' compensation claim.  As part of the claim, our employee would be required to complete an incident report and to identify the exact location where the injury occurred.  The dog bite likely would be reported to the authorities - our employees tend to call in from the location and then our dispatch sends the police to investigate.  In the event that our employee needs medical care or loses time for the injury and we have to pay benefits, we would pursue the dog owner to recover all of our costs - we would use a private investigator to identify the dog owner.  If the dog owner pays voluntarily, we would accept payment from them, if not, we would sue.  One of the problems with dog bites is that employees sometimes require psychiatric care.  [/quote]

LOL this has to be parody. Nice.[/quote]

This is completely true. [/quote]

How can you require someone to file for worker's comp? Doesn't the NOT benefit the employer? I call bull, to all of it. What a ridiculous way of doing business.

If your company came after me, I would counter-sue. You would be putting my kids through college. You are on notice.[/quote]

NP here.  Last poster is absolutely clueless, and saying that someone is "on notice" [b](WTH? LOL)[/b] would not change any of it.

First poster here is absolutely spot on, as is the poster who mentioned having adequate homeowner's insurance. OP, you are in over your head. [/quote]

Correct. It was a joke.[/quote]

PP again. I was joking when I said "You are on notice" -- I thought that was obviously tongue in cheek -- but I wasn't joking about conter-suing. I would sue your company so hard they'd wish they hadn't gone after me for a nip that didn't even bother the recipient. If you've ever been on a jury, you know that most people are supportive of the regular people involved, not the companies who make life hard for us. You required the person file to file for worker's comp? That would not look good.  I would win. You would be sad.[/quote]
Nobody anywhere is supportive of your dog's 'right to bite'. You may have been mislead.[/quote]

I would just show that the company PP works for is using this as an excuse to make a buck. People do this with fender benders and all kinds of other insurance issues. They're scam artists.[/quote]

You really don’t get this at all. There is no profit. If an employee is injured due to someone else’s negligence and the company incurs expenses for their medical care, lost time and costs of administering the claim, they are entitled to recover. Companies  get nothing more than they pay out. And the only reason they would pay in this case, if they do, is because of the dog bite.

Here no one knows the extent of the injuries. Maybe nothing. Maybe skin got broken and later serious infection occurs requiring Emergency care, IV antibiotics, weeks off work and physical therapy due to reconditioning given the heavy nature of this type of work - which infection, with early reporting and first aid, might have been preventable.  Maybe driver has a preexisting condition that worsens and the bite causes serious medical issues keeping the driver out of work for six months and resulting in six figures of medical bills. Maybe the driver twisted a leg trying to get away from the dog and will need knee surgery. Maybe the driver had a previous serious dog bite and this one results in a flare up of PTSD. And maybe the driver came to work with an injury that they couldn’t afford to take time off to treat and the dog bite presents an opportunity to make a fake claim.

Point is you don’t know. And many of these issues don’t show up immediately. Time is not your friend when it comes to gathering evidence. That’s why you need to know day one. Late reports result in loss of evidence. [/quote]

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