If it is posted on FR it must be a pitbull.
The woman let her dog out unsupervised. She should have to pay damages to the car, and she should be ashamed for neglecting her dog.
Heartwarming story placemarker.
If the dog wasn’t on a leash, then the dog’s owner is responsible for its death, as well as damage to the vehicle. It sounds to me like this dog owner became accustomed to be a poor master.
I gotta side with the insurance company on this one. Control your animals, or pay up. You are responsible. I hit a German Shephard in my Chrysler Sebring - did over $2500 damage to my car. Ran out in front of me on a rural road. Car was un-driveable until I got it fixed. It was worse than the deer I hit. I guess the higher center of gravity of the deer let it bounce over the top instead of pushing the bumper back into the engine like the dog did.
If the dog was really a member of your family, he wouldn't have been left loose to run around in the street.
$1,700 sounds like a lot of money for a bumper.
Pay up.
I bet the neighbors are going to miss that dog crapping on their yards everyday.
In California, I believe that Dog owners are responsible for loose-dog related automobile accident damages — especially on freeways.
If the dog was left to roam around on it’s own, then yes the owner should be liable for damages.
“Moments later, a man knocked on the door to say a car had run over Jake.”
A lot of people would have hit and run.
Perhaps she should send the man a bill for the dog’s vet bills, funeral and pain and suffering to the family. If there are no leash laws, she had every right to let her dog out for a stroll.
Pay up!
I made a guy pay to repair my truck when I killed 2 of his arabian horses that ran across the road!
garbage like this is why I dropped State Farm and will NEVER go back to them.
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
Sniff test: How fast would a vehicle have to be going (this was on some sort of residential street) for its bumper to incur $1700 worth of damage (or any damage, for that matter) from an impact with a Labrador retriever? And what was the legal speed limit? Or was the bumper damaged well before the impact with the Labrador, and the vehicle owner saw this as a good opportunity to get a new bumper without paying for it?
If the driver was speeding, he should be paying for a nice casket and headstone for the dog as well as for a new dog for the family, paying for his own new bumper (regardless of when it actually got damaged), and thanking God it wasn’t an escaped young child he hit. If he wasn’t speeding, I seriously doubt the dog had anything to do with the damaged bumper, and he probably ought to be facing insurance fraud charges.
The dog owner is liable.
I once had a dog it was impossible to keep in the house. My friends used to swear he was an alien. He would look at you like he was reading your mind. Shepherd terrier mix.
He was smarter than anyone I know. And that’s scary.
He was only about 35 lbs but could figure out how to climb any fence. He also could open doorknobs. But his favorite was to wait in a high position on the stairs, so he could see people approaching the house.
He would tear down the stairs using his head as a battering ram, and time it so the moment someone clicked the front screen door, he would ram it with his head, the door would fly and he would disappear in the distance.
While I do agree that the family is negligent for letting a dog run around unsupervised, how can State Farm legally compel them to pay up?
Woof!