Editor's note: This information first appeared on iii.org and is reprinted here with their permission. See Dog Bites Accounted For More Than One-Third Of All Homeowners Liability Payouts Last Year As Cost Per Claim Soars and Dog Bite Liability for the original posts.
Dog bites (and other dog-related injuries) accounted for more than one-third of all homeowners insurance liability claim dollars paid out in 2014, costing in excess of $530 million, according to the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) and State Farm, the largest writer of homeowners insurance in the United States.
[Related: Top 10 States for Dog Bite Claims in 2013]
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