Look Who’s Lurking Around Your Facebook Page: Your Insurance Company!
The detailed information many people reveal about themselves on popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace has caught the attention of the insurance companies. Insureds with disability claims should be alert to their insurance company potentially using this investigation/surveillance tool and should think twice before posting photos and information about their daily lives that could be misconstrued and used against them. Marilyn Lewis has written an interesting article on Insure.com about the future of insurance companies investigating their insureds online not only in order to determine rates for home, auto and life insurance, but to conduct surveillance on insureds with claims.
