These are the dangers of posting on social media after you’ve been in an accident. It’s very risky in Virginia to talk about your accident or your injuries on social media. Insurance companies are nosy. They’re going to look you up. They’re going to search your account. They’re going to look for you to talk about your accident and they’re going to be watching what you’re doing in your photographs. And if the photographs create a misleading picture about the true extent of your injuries, they’re going to download those photos and try to use them against you down the road. Now, it’s very important if you are watching this video and it’s too late. You’ve already talked about your accident on social media. That’s okay. Do not delete it. An insurance company or defense lawyer in Virginia is going to argue that you’ve destroyed evidence and they’re going to make certain arguments to the judge to try to hurt your case. If you’ve already talked about it, just don’t talk about it anymore. Be very careful about what you post on social media after an accident. And then, you know, set your settings more private so that maybe someone who doesn’t know you can’t go snooping around your business and on your page and try to create a narrative that’s just not true about what you’re going through and what you’re experiencing, how you’re now living your life. You know, a common example would be if you injure your back badly in an accident, but you love to bowl and you haven’t bowled in six months and you finally want to give it a try. You give it a go. You bowl through the pain. You’re taking smiling photos out there at the lanes with your friends. You wake up and you can’t move the next morning. Well, you gave it a try. You wanted to test your body. You knew you probably couldn’t do it, but again, you just wanted to see your old friends and you want to go out and bowl. They will use those pictures completely out of context of you smiling with friends in a bowling alley and make it seem like you’re not suffering and make it seem like you are fully healed and that you’re trying to pull a fast one when in reality you’re not. So again, you just want to be very mindful of what you put on social media after an accident because they will try to spin it to hurt your case. No need to worry. Call Cooper Hurley, the car crash experts. 333-3333.
