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Social Networking Sites Can Harm Your Accident Case

Social Media Sites Can Harm Your Kentucky Accident Case-Kentucky Accident Attorney
DATE:  July, 2009
TYPE:  Warning for accident victims of Kentucky on social networking sites 

Facebook, and many other social networking sites are becoming more and more popular. This is not only with kids but with all age groups.  Employers using these sites to help screen job applicants or to check up on their employees.  There have even been cases where jury verdicts have been over turned because jurors had made updates on their social networking site during the trial.  These sites are everywhere and the number of users is increasing daily. 

These sites are not just for fun and keeping up with friends.  Insurance companies and their attorneys are using these sites too.  Adjusters are checking Facebook, Twitter, etc. and looking at blogs to get information about the accident victim.  There may be valuable information about you on these sites that could severely damage your Kentucky auto accident case. 

The insurance adjuster's job is to pay you as little as they possibly can on your injury claim. Unfortunately social media sites as well as blogs can help them do their job.  You voluntarily put all of your personal information on these sites.  You load personal photos on these sites.  Friends make comments about you. You put videos on YouTube.  With this amount of information on their computers in front of them internet surveillance may be the only investigation the insurance company has to do. 

The insurance companies are looking at these sites:

·          To confirm or disprove the severity of your injury.

·          To confirm or disprove your ability to perform activities and sports.

·          To confirm or disprove your ability to work. 

Pictures, videos, personal information, posts and comments can wreck your case.  When you become an accident victim, you begin living in a glass house.  You MUST be aware of how your pictures and comments will be viewed.  Sometimes even the most innocent and seemingly irrelevant things can be twisted to make it look as if you were not injured or that you are lying about being injured.