Should You Post on Social Media After an Accident?
If you are involved in an accident and subsequent personal injury claim, what you post on social media can impact your case, which is why you should not post about: • The car wreck • Your injuries, treatment plan, or any other medical information • Regrets (concerning the accident) • “Check-ins” (i.e., information about where you are or what activities you are doing) • The case itself After an automobile collision, we ask all our clients to avoid posting anything accident-related on social media. Here’s why: Your social media accounts are not private. Even if you have privacy settings on your social media accounts, anything you post goes into the public domain and is, therefore, discoverable by insurance companies. Insurance companies will use any information available to them to lower the value of your claim. If you post all over social media about your injury claim, other information in your social media posts could help them keep money from you. Let’s say you were injured in an automobile collision on a Friday afternoon. You then post on Facebook and Instagram about the accident, including several pictures and sharing that your neck and back hurt. The following weekend, you attend a friend’s wedding and join the festivities by dancing like MC Hammer in the good old days. (Side note: If you are too young to know who MC Hammer is, please go to YouTube, and you will understand precisely what I’m
talking about.) However, people with neck and back injuries cannot move like that; if they do, they will not be able to walk the next day. The insurance company (and their legal team) can obtain photos and videos from the wedding (likely also posted on social media) and share them with the judge and jury. They may question how severe your injuries are if you posted one week that you were in pain and posted the following week that you were “killing it” on the dance floor. A young lady once told one of our attorneys, “But social media is my life.” We’re not asking you to cut social media from your life — just to be mindful of your posts. Remember, you can be on social media, but you can’t post about the accident or your injuries. Social Media Can Hurt Your Personal Injury Case Attorneys hate surprises, especially when it involves being blindsided in court. When protecting our clients in court, we want to be prepared and don’t want pictures or videos to surface that show our client in a compromising position, especially if our client posted the evidence. At the Dellutri Law Group, we want to give our clients every advantage possible as we fight for fair compensation. So, as a general principle, we intentionally ask our clients to keep the details of their cases, the strategies we set forth, and any other case details private by not sharing them on social media. While it may seem old-fashioned or overly cautious, some things are still better off not being posted online.
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