Your Facebook Page May Be Used Against You in an Accident Injury Claim

Filled under Auto Accidents, Bicycle Accidents, Compensation, Damages, Drunk Driving Injuries, Insurance Companies, Our Firm, Slip-and-Fall, Truck accidents, Uncategorized on August 8, 2011 - no comments .

With the proliferation of social media, and with many wanting to share their lives with the outside world the consequences of Facebook postings for personal injury litigation is substantial.

For instance, a person involved in an auto accident sustains a broken femur.  Several weeks after the accident and surgery to repair the femur, the client goes out to a night club with friends.  Pictures are taken and subsequently posted on Facebook.

Investigators for defense counsel are monitoring the Facebook postings of the claimant and come upon the pictures.  The pictures are subsequently used to diminish the value of the claim.

James Esparza advises all our clients to not post on Facebook until the conclusion of matter  because anything posted could and will be used against a claimant to diminish the value of the claim or to defeat the claim in its entirety.

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