Monthly Archives: May 2017

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Beneficiaries Exerting Undue Influence: Writing Other Beneficiaries Out Of Trusts Beneficiaries Whether money is the root of all evil or not, it sure causes a lot of problems. Perhaps most poignantly within families, where greed, old grudges or resentments displace love and affection. Whatever the scale and wherever […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Hospital and Nursing Home Accountability Government Agency Wants Inspection Results Publicized In a groundbreaking announcement, federal authorities are pushing to have details of hospital and nursing home inspections made public. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed that the results of private inspections of medical […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Abuse: Yet Another Form of Elder Abuse Elder Abuse Currently, the largest generation ever in our country’s history is becoming senior“. Growing old brings big change in one’s life and as more and more of our population ages the changes – and adjustments – to aging become […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Terrible Truth of Annuities Annuities A lot of people are talked into annuities as a way to save for retirement. Please think twice (or three times) before you are sold an annuity. As more and more people, seniors particularly, end up with annuities, it becomes clear that […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER FINRA Announces Tough New Sanctions Cracking Down on Exploitation The financial industry is taking a long, hard look at the way its own people approach the consumer. Especially, the vulnerable consumer, who is most susceptible to exploitative practices and, in the case of seniors, financial elder abuse. The […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Exploitation of Elders: A Crime on the Rise Financial Elder Abuse The elderly population in America is steadily growing, as our baby boomers become senior citizens. In fact, about 10,000 individuals turn 65 every single day, which is making “elderly” a very steadily-increasing sector of our population. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Following Up On CNN Report of Nursing Home Abuse What’s Being Done? We at Evans Law Firm wrote before on the recent, terrible CNN story about nursing home abuse. To recall, CNN last month reported on cases of sexual abuse in nursing homes occurring throughout the country at […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER San Francisco Prosecutor Awarded $2 Million In Highly-Anticipated Case Whistleblower Case Recently, a San Francisco jury ruled in favor of a San Francisco prosecutor who alleged that she was terminated from her place of work for trying to dig deeper into some suspected fraud and city corruption. In […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Elder Abuse: A Widespread Fraud National Awareness And The Case Of Brooke Astor Ten years ago, the grandson of wealthy philanthropist Brooke Astor found his grandmother living in squalor, isolated from her friends, malnourished, neglected, and low on money and help. She was 100 years old, suffering […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER FINRA Puts the Onus on Financial Advisors to Fight Elder Abuse Financial Elder Abuse Financial elder abuse is a crime that does not seem to be slowing down, and it is causing intense financial burden on those individuals affected. Regulatory agencies such as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority […]