How Can Social Media Impact Your Injury Case? - Answers The Personal Injury Attorneys Of Camden County | SobelLaw

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How Can Social Media Impact Your Injury Case? -
Answers The Personal Injury Attorneys Of Camden
County  

• Sobellaw

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• Most of the personal injury case does take a long
  time, depending on the complication of the case
  and each and every part of a piece of information
  is important, even because of the boon in the
  technology of social media, whatever you share
  can also be a part of your case, how?
• Here the personal injury attorneys of Camden
  County are answering you, read further!

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• The use of social media is growing day by day and
  to be true people are very active on social
  sites, good or bad, one post just gets viral and
  trending within minutes, so it has such a power
  as you can see.
• And according to Pew Research Center Report,
  they estimated that 74 of people (the adults)
  who used internet for other purposes also, used
  social media sites.
• Here, what I mean to say is internet is no longer
  used for browsing and searching but also for
  being socially active.

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• Talking about social sites, even the legal
  industry is affected by it- whether it is the
  clients, lawyers, law-firm, oppositions, etc.
  whosoever, the details shared on sites can be
  used an evidence to favor your case or to dismiss
  your case, depends!
• And this is why the personal injury attorney of
  Camden County says that one should be very
  careful about their social persona when it comes
  to filing a personal injury lawsuit.
• The question arises how, isnt it! Well, to clear
  your doubts, you should consider these following
  things below

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1. Your Social Posts Can Be Harmful To Your
Injury Lawsuit

• As a fact, individuals claim for personal injury
  because theyve suffered the injuries and pain
  for which they werent responsible like chronic
  pain, leg or hand injuries, broken bones, mental
  disturbance, brain injuries, damages in tissues,
  etc. And as such, they seek remuneration for 2
  things
• Medical expenses those are associated with the
  injury
• Non-economic damages that are related to pain and
  suffering

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• These 2 things are directly related to personal
  injury claim, and the person suffering will file
  a lawsuit to claim compensation for most probably
  these two reasons. And in order, to confirm these
  damages are true in nature, a claimant needs to
  call his medical experts and specialists
  witnesses, to prove his point fair.
• The job of the opposition or defense, of the
  claimant, is to do the opposite move i.e. drag up
  the evidence to prove that the defense is
  innocent and give the least amount trying to
  close the case once and for all.

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• Just for an example
• Think you are an applicant who wants to seek
  damages for pain and injuries, the defense would
  here would not sit back once they get a notice as
  you filed a claim, they would immediately try to
  drag up evidence and suppose they come up to your
  social sites and they land up on a photograph
  which shows youre a professional hiker or
  climber, and you want to seek damages for those
  injuries at that instant you wont get the
  compensation because the defense would present
  all your smiling and hiking photographs saying it
  was not the defense fault and because the
  photographs look quite convincing, you might not
  receive any compensation furthermore.

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2. Evidence On Your Social Media Could Be Used
Against You

• The people involved in accidents often suffer
  terribly facing emotional breakdown, injuries,
  loss of enjoyment, depression, anxiety, etc. are
  all part of the sufferings that are faced by the
  victims involved in accidents. And a person who
  wants to be compensated for his/her injuries
  needs proofs to prove his/her wounds.
• The defense during a personal injury claim could
  address Facebook and alternative social media
  sites or forums, like a claimants personal
  weblog, so as to contradict claims of emotional
  distress, depression, etc. and also the proof
  that they use may be more surprising than you
  would assume.

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• Instead of the plain like footage of the
  applicant enjoying life or smiling amongst
  friends the defense could use one thing as on
  the face of it innocuous as posts on the
  applicants page want the claimant a cheerful
  birthday, whereas creating the claim that if the
  applicant was socially isolated and outcast, he
  or she wouldn't receive birthday needs from
  numerous alternative users.
• Though the link between birthday needs on a
  Facebook page and depression could seem loose,
  make certain that the defense can pull upon
  something they will so as to cut back the number
  of cash they're chargeable for.

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3. Your Social Media Postings Are A Public
Record

• To be true, yes your social media postings are a
  public record, anything that you post publicly on
  the internet say social sites or any person who
  posts something about you can be used as evidence
  and let me say it can be used against you as
  well, the defense attorneys are always good in
  this.
• Except for the private messages, most of the
  things can be easily accessed and used against
  you.

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4. Best Practices For Social Media

• Posting anything online once an accident could
  also be dangerous to your claim, even though
  you're thinking that what you're posting is
  harmless or is in no method associated with your
  injury.
• Once you have got been in an accident, you must
  briefly suspend all of your social media
  accounts.

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• At the very least, you must make certain that
  your account is ready to non-public, which you
  are doing not settle for any new friend requests
  during the period after your accident.
• You must also ask friends and relations to
  refrain from posting something associated with
  you once your accident and to line their profiles
  to non-public as well.

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• I hope you understand how important role your
  social media plays in your injury claim and hence
  the
• personal injury attorney Camden County
• always give the advice to be quite attentive and
  not post anything on social site that could be
  used against you and harm you, and if you feel
  you require some good injury lawyers in Camden
  county here is the best law-firm
• THE LAW OFFICES OF HOWARD N. SOBEL, P.A
• with great knowledge and experience from more
  than 25 years that helps clients like you to get
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