As Orlando car accident lawyers we are seeing an increasing amount of video surveillance in Orlando car accident cases. Why is the use of video surveillance in car accident cases on the rise? We believe the car insurance companies recognize the cheap availability of video surveillance and the fact that decent, hardworking people must get on with their lives as best they can. Therefore, most honest car accident victims continue to work and live in pain. As a result, it is easy for car insurance investigators to follow injured people and video them walking down the street, driving to work and going to the grocery store.
While a car accident victim may have suffered a serious back or neck injury, they will conscientiously try to live as normally as possible despite the pain. If a busy mother has to pick up her children from school and has no help, what must she do? Obviously, she must deal with her pain, drive to school and get her children. While doing so, would a good mother allow her young children to see her in pain or would she try her best to “smile” through it? All the while the car insurance company spies are videotaping this hard working, dedicated mother trying who is trying to keep things in order for her family after a serious car crash.
It is obviously important for Orlando car accident lawyers and clients to recognize these increasing car insurance company tactics. It is critically important so that car accident clients can be prepared to truthfully and accurately answer all questions asked by the car insurance lawyer assigned to defend the at-fault driver. Being truthful requires an accurate understanding of what is being asked and a proper description of what limitations exist. Any exaggeration or lack of memory on these key points may be twisted or used by the insurance company lawyer at trial to attack an otherwise truthful, legitimately injured car accident victim.