Think Before You Tweet! WHAT THE INSURANCE COMPANIES DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA
It is critical to your automobile wreck case that you DO NOT post on social media about your car wreck, your injuries, or your treatment plan. After an automobile collision, we ask all of our clients to stay away from posting anything accident related on social media. because your social media accounts are not private . Even if you have privacy settings on your social media accounts, anything you post goes out into the public domain and is, therefore, discoverable by the 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, there may be other information in your social media posts that could help them keep money from you. Let’s say that you were injured in an automobile collision on a Friday afternoon.
Of course, you put a post on Facebook and Instagram about the accident, several pictures, and that your neck and back hurt. A week later you attend a friend’s wedding, and there you are dancing like MC Hammer in the good ol’ days. (If you are too young to know who MC Hammer is, please go to YouTube, and you will understand exactly what I’m talking about.) People with neck and back injuries cannot move like that, or if they do, they will not be able to walk tomorrow. If you are wondering whether or not those pictures can be obtained by the insurance company who you are making a claim against, the answer is yes; they can be obtained by the insurance company and one day, they could be seen by a jury. I had a young lady say to me the other day, “But social media is my life.” I told her, “I didn’t say that you couldn’t be on social media. I just asked you to not post
anything about the accident, your injuries, or your treatment plan.” She agreed.
As an attorney, you learn to hate surprises, especially during your cases. You don’t want pictures to surface that show your client in a compromising position, and you certainly don’t want pictures to surface, that your client created, which puts them in a compromising position. You want to give your clients every advantage possible when it comes to receiving maximum compensation under the law. 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 details of their matter private by not sharing anything about it on social media. Call me old-fashioned, but it still works. There are still somethings that are better off not being public.
–Carmen Dellutri
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“Back in 2020, I found out that I had lost a car accident case that would leave me with a massive amount of medical debt and credit card debt. Additionally, I was in the middle of preparing to relocate for work and sell our house. I was facing depression and stress with no light at the end of the tunnel. I contacted Dellutri Law Group among many other local firms. “I quickly received a call back from Casey Byrus, and we set up an appointment. We met with David Lampley to discuss my situation and options. We were pleased with David’s plan, but I still reached out to other firms to get their opinions. I met with two other firms where I was told that I could not file Chapter 7 and that Chapter 13 would be my only option. One attorney wouldn’t even touch my case since I was moving out of state. “I didn’t want to go with Dellutri only because the firm told me what I wanted to hear; I wanted to make the best and most
logical choice. My wife and I had another meeting with David to discuss what the other lawyers told us, and he reassured us that we could file Chapter 7 and be fine. (Side note: My theory on the other lawyers pushing people into Chapter 13 is that they receive a set payment by the court for 3-5-7 years while you are on a payment plan to repay debts, so it’s in their best interest to push Chapter 13. It’s set profit for them.) “We decided to go with Dellutri and it was the best decision we made. Casey was always there to help and showed us support the entire way. I was able to file alone without including my wife and we were able to sell our home, keep the profits, and settle with repurchasing some of our assets back in the end. I highly recommend them to anyone that might be in a similar situation and is feeling trapped.” –A.K. google review , jan . 2022
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