Facebook Strikes Again
A fellow Georgia trial lawyer shared the following story from trial about a client who suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fractured skull. A very real, documentatable and serious injury, no doubt. Throughout the course of the case and at trial, the client maintained that his poor grades were the result of his brain injury. At trial, the insurance company's lawyer whipped out page after page from Facebook of the client partying at college "to show the real reason" for the poor grades. The judge allowed the Facebook entries into evidence for impeachment. The jury returned an inadequate verdict for the brain injured client.
A picture is worth 1000 words, so the old adage goes. "Tagged" photos of injury clients doing anything other than looking miserable are likely to be intrepreted negatively by jurors. Do you stop laughing or smiling after you have been injured? Do you stop living? This Fayette County Georgia Personal Injury Lawyer certainly hopes not. Avoiding a Facebook disaster is paramount in people's lives, careers and when they seek redress for negligently inflicted harm.
