Dog Bites Checklists
Simple, practical checklists to protect your health and your claim. Save or print any of them.
What to Do After a Dog Bite
The steps you take after a bite protect your health and your claim. Here is a simple checklist, in order.
Open the checklist →How to Identify the Dog and Its Owner
A dog bite claim usually depends on identifying the dog and its owner — for insurance, vaccination status, and the dog's history. This checklist helps, especially when it happened in public.
Open the checklist →How to Document Your Dog Bite Injuries
Dog bite injuries, and especially scarring, change as they heal, so documenting them over time protects your claim. Here is how.
Open the checklist →How to Keep an Injury Journal After a Dog Bite
Much of what a dog attack costs — pain, fear, and disruption — is invisible on a bill. A short daily journal captures it, and the detail is far more convincing later.
Open the checklist →How to Report a Dog Bite to Animal Control
Reporting a bite to animal control creates an official record, helps confirm the dog's vaccination status, and can establish the dog's history — all of which can matter for your health and a claim.
Open the checklist →Looking for the law in your state?
These checklists apply wherever you were hurt. For filing deadlines, fault rules, and what you can recover, choose the state where it happened.