Putting a leash on veterinary costs

For anyone out there who happens to practice animal law and handles plaintiff-side veterinary malpractice cases...

The next time defense counsel tries to argue that the companion animal was only worth its "market value", you may want to show the judge this Chicago Tribune article finding that Americans spent more than 10 billion - that's with a "b" - on veterinary care last year. That's an awful lot of money to fix property that clearly would have been cheaper to replace unless it had some sort of "value" beyond monetary worth...