Summary
Avoid posting about your injuries or the incident on social media; keep your accounts private to protect your personal injury case.
Highlights
- Don’t post about injuries: Sharing details can harm your case.
- Avoid discussing the event: Silence is safer for your legal standing.
- Set accounts to private: Protect your information from prying eyes.
- Insurers monitor social media: They look for evidence to undermine claims.
- Innocent photos can mislead: A smile may be misinterpreted by adjusters.
- Be cautious with friend requests: Unknown followers could be insurance agents.
- Protect your case: Staying off social media helps maintain your credibility
Transcript
We tell our clients: don’t post on social media about your injuries. Make sure you don’t talk about the event on social media as well, and always make your social media—whether that be Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram—private. We see this all the time: insurance adjusters and attorneys will mine social media for “good nuggets” to help them defend their case. There could be an innocent picture of you smiling with friends and family, and the insurance adjuster will claim, “Look at this person—they’re smiling, they’re happy, nothing’s changed for them after the wreck,” even though that’s far from the truth. So, please keep your social media page private, and don’t accept new friend requests from people you don’t know; those new friends might be the insurance company.
