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Arkansas: Legal Rights

When a person is injured by a dog in Arkansas, especially in serious cases, painful feelings can extend to family members and witnesses. Most often, this painful feeling is described as emotional distress, which includes fright or anxiety. Compensation and liability for distress vary by state. The states are divided into three categories, which are known as the physical injury states, zone of danger states and foreseeability states.

Physical injury states maintain that a person cannot receive compensation for emotional distress unless they have been physically injured in some way. Some states require proof of a significant injury, while others accept a slight physical injury or shock to the nervous system.

Zone of danger states require that for a person to collect for emotional distress, they must have been within a certain zone while the attack happened. These states hold that the person must have been so close that they too feared for their safety.

To recover in a foreseeability state, the person’s distress must have been a possible consequence of the defendant’s actions. For a person to collect for emotional distress, they must have been a close relative, present at the place of the attack and saw the incident.

While these cases may be hard to win, if a person received counseling after the event it can be slightly easier. Other people who have not received counseling report inability to go about daily activities because of emotional distress.