Three weeks after a driver pinned you against a parked car on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, a surgeon amputated your left leg below the knee. You're in a rehab facility learning to stand on a prosthetic socket that doesn't fit right yet, and your cousin just tagged you in a photo from your niece's birthday party. You're smiling in it, because you love your niece. What you don't know is that someone hired by the insurance company may already be saving that photo. Insurers

You're eight months out from a T12 burst fracture and fusion surgery after a crash on the Belt Parkway. You use a cane on good days and a wheelchair on bad ones. Your cousin throws a birthday party in Bay Ridge, and for three seconds you stand up, smile, and someone snaps a photo that lands on Instagram. A year later, a defense lawyer slides that photo across the table at your deposition and asks why a "paralyzed man" looks so happy on his feet. This is how spinal cord injury

You fall fifteen feet off a scaffold on a New York City job site. Your lumbar spine is shattered, surgeons fuse three vertebrae, and your doctor tells you that you'll never lift more than ten pounds again. Six months later, while you're trying to feel human again, you post a smiling photo at your cousin's barbecue holding your toddler for thirty seconds. By the time your case reaches deposition, the defense lawyer has that photo enlarged on a screen and is asking you to expla