How Facebook Affects Car Accidents
With this social media revolution comes additional sources of information that defense lawyers use for impeachment of innocent victims of car accidents. In the last year, we have noticed a marked increase in discovery requests in personal injury lawsuits that relate to Facebook pages and other social media accounts.
What the insurance company lawyers are attempting to do is find postings from Facebook where victims had positive things to say or went out and did fun things and posted it to Facebook, in an effort to show or try to show that the victim was really not hurt, or that the injury has not adversely impacted the victim's life.
All of us know, that friends and family members do not really want to hear sob stories from us about our problems. And the dilemma of the Facebook posting is should a person mentioned a problem on the posting date court and the jury will never ever hear about it in trial because the defense lawyer will never bring it up. However if someone posts "having a great day" or post pictures at the beach, it may become exhibit a in an effort to show the victim was exaggerating or not really hurt.
The moral of the story is, if you may be involved in a personal-injury lawsuit you may want to forgo posting on Facebook, for a while.
If you or loved one has been injured and would like to speak with a personal injury attorney please contact the Baumgartner law firm for a no obligation consultation on a serious injury case.
