Avoid Social Media Mistakes That Can Hurt Your Injury Claim

I had a client who was injured in a car wreck off work. She was hurt, she had surgery, a lot of things going on. While she was convalescing from her surgery, laid up in bed, she decides to go through her old photos on her phone and she starts posting to social media. One of the things she posted was being on a cruise and going rock climbing with a date stamp that said it happened during her recovery. So the insurance company’s refusing to pay her. They’re challenging, thinking she’s not as hurt as she is. We don’t know why yet because we didn’t know that post had happened, and they take her deposition. She has to sit down in a room under oath with a bunch of attorneys and a court reporter typing down her every word and the first thing the other attorney slid across to her was “Can you explain why you were going rock climbing when you’ve told us that you can’t work and you can’t get out of bed?” Now, she had a reasonable explanation but it took her a lot more time and effort and anxiety to get to the point where she could explain herself, and if that account had been set to private, she never would have had to explain anything at all.