Legal Authority Still Murky on Use of Social Networks

By Greg Jones, reporterSocial networking websites are a valuable tool for investigating injured workers' claims, but the practice is so new that there is virtually no case law or other guidelines on how information from the sites can be used or collected in workers' compensation cases, according to a paper published by the William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn.The paper, "Social Networking and Workers' Compensation Law at the Crossroads," goes on to say that the workers' compensation systems provide a great backdrop against which to view the legal and ethical challe...