Quebec woman awarded $460K after attack by three dogs; owner and municipality liable

A woman in Quebec ’s Eastern Townships has been awarded nearly $460,000 in damages after being attacked by a trio of dogs five years ago.In March 2019, Dominique Alain was out jogging in Quebec ’s Eastern Townships when she was mauled by three dogs, leaving her with life-threatening injuries to her arms and legs.

Five years later, in a May 15 decision, Quebec Superior Court Justice Sylvain Provencher ruled that the dogs’ owner, Alan Barnes, and the municipality of Potton, Que., were solitarily liable to pay nearly $460,000 in damages to the victim and $75,000 to her spouse. “It is highly probable that, had it not been for Potton’s negligence and failure to take appropriate measures to curb the threat – the presence of eminently aggressive and dangerous dogs circulating on public roads – the savage attack experienced by Alain at the hands of Barnes’s dogs … would not have taken place,” Provencher said in his written ruling.

Alain, an active jogger and skier, was hospitalized for three months and underwent more than a dozen hours of surgery during multiple operations. Some of the damage – neurological and muscular – is permanent and, despite many hours in physiotherapy and more than a year of psychotherapy, she continues to suffer physically and mentally.Jonathan Gottlieb, the lawyer representing Alain and her husband, said his clients are satisfied with the judgment.

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