Imagine that you are injured in West Palm Beach car accident where there may be surveillance video like in the parking lot of a major retail store. You suffer serious physical and economic damages and hire a West Palm Beach car accident injury lawyer to represent you. Your West Palm Beach car accident attorney personal injury requests copies of the security/surveillance video. Your West Palm Beach car accident lawyer receives the video and it shows before and after the accident but nothing of the accident as if it has been edited out. The attorney for the store says there is nothing else to produce even after your West Palm Beach accident attorney files a Motion to Compel. What does your attorney do?

Your West Palm Beach car accident attorney should move forward on the Motion to Compel and seek fees. However, he/she should go further and ask for the name of every personnel involved at looking at the video to see of the accident was on film, who edited it, and all steps taken by management and the procedures and protocol for protecting the tape. The store probably won't want to do this. If they do provide the information, you should set them for depositions and take their testimony under oath as to why there is no footage of the accident but everything before and after is there and what they are supposed to do when there is an accident on tape.