Can social media affect my injury claim? – Bennerotte & Associates, P.A.

This transcript was auto-populated.

Transcript:
00:00
Social media can have a very negative effect on your personal injury claim if you’re not aware. And by aware, I mean this. You have to know that the insurance company is going to go out and look. They’re going to Google you or they’re going to search you and try to figure

00:14
out what you’re doing. You know, here’s the biggest thing we always promote for every client. One of the biggest things they need to do is be honest. Unfortunately, not everybody always is. So, when you tell the insurance company that you can’t ride your motorcycle,

00:28
it’s not a good idea to go on social media and post yourself taking a motorcycle trip across the country. Seen it happen. Or running in a marathon or giving your dad a piggyback ride. Um, well, those are all real things I’ve seen happen. So, I guess bottom line is

00:44
this. Number one, it’s always easier to tell the truth, but if you’re going to go out and you’re going to talk about what you can or can’t do after your collision and what your injuries are and what they’re limiting you to, you better make, you know, darn sure that you’re

00:58
careful about what you’re posting on social media because what happens is you post, insurance company sees it, they screenshot it. Never want to promote people deleting things off social media either. So, if they put something silly out there that they shouldn’t have, they

01:15
ask us, we’re always going to say, “Nope, you can’t delete it.” I’m never going to tell you to. You need to be honest. But the better idea is just get in a crash, quit posting. Don’t post stuff. It’s just simpler. It doesn’t open you up to maybe even a misinterpretation of something that the

01:32
insurance companies may perceive what you’re doing. But it’s better to just not post at all in that setting because you do not open yourself up to the risk then of looking like you’re doing something you’re