Social Media Mistakes to Avoid: Golf Cart Story

Another good example of social media gone wrong is a client that was injured in a golf cart accident. The cart flipped over on him, he had broken bones, non-surgical luckily, but he had filed on the golf course because they did not maintain the cart path and that lack of maintenance caused the golf cart to flip on him. When the golf course refused to pay anything before litigation, one of the things their adjuster sent was something he had posted two years before his injury and in that post he was admittedly, stupidly, standing on the roof of a golf cart with the sun behind him, his arms raised in a V holding the golf club up in one hand and the post said something along the lines of “What a glorious day.” Now was it stupid for him to climb on the roof of the cart, yes, but did that cause him to be hurt? No, that was two years beforehand, and the fact that he did something stupid two years ago doesn’t mean he was doing something stupid at the time he was hurt. Nevertheless, again, he had to file his claim in court and have an attorney look at it and overrule that adjuster, and it all could have been avoided if his account was set to private.