Yearly Archives: 2021

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Individual Whistleblowers Essential To Enforcement  $62 Billion Has Been Recovered Through Private Whistleblowers Since 1986  Whistleblower Rewards Average 20% Of Recoveries  The modern-day Federal False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C.§ 3729 et seq., and its qui tam whistleblower provisions (The term for individual whistleblower suits) grew largely out […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Increased Isolation And Financial Abuse Caregivers Can Be Predators  Napa Caregiver Registration Authorities from around the country are reporting record spikes in financial elder abuse cases during the pandemic. Financial elder abuse is also on the rise here in Napa.  Periods of high unemployment and economic downturn such […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elderly Churchgoers Swindled Out Of Millions Older Church Members Encouraged To Cash Out Other Investments  $3.5 Million Taken In Scheme Financial elder abuse can come from different actors and from different directions.  Sometimes, the predator is an individual in whom the victims have a great amount of trust, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Free Lunch Seminars and Ads Push “Financial Strategies” If It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Usually Is Take Your Time and Do Your Homework Older adults are too often the targets of annuity salespeople intent on earning a sales commission.  Sales tactics include free lunch or […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Incidents of Financial Elder Abuse Spiking in Los Angeles Most Reported Cases Include Both Physical and Financial Elder Abuse  Indicators of Possible Financial Abuse The United States has been plagued for decades by the epidemic of elder abuse.  The COVID-19 pandemic has only made matters far worse – […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Unscrupulous Agents Earn Commissions On Unsuitable Products Misrepresentations And High-Pressured Sales Tactics Evans Law Firm Represents Financial Elder Abuse Victims Financial elder abuse is the most common form of elder abuse in the United States; elder advocacy groups estimate that there are five million cases of financial elder […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Owner Convicted Of Involuntary Manslaughter Dementia Patient Killed After Wandering Away Facility Was Not Licensed For Dementia Patients For-profit nursing homes and care facilities often put profits ahead of the level of care they can adequately provide residents.  Examples of cost-cutting measures that endanger residents include reducing staff […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Alleged Overcharges on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Contracts Former Defense Contractor Executive Blows Whistle Set To Receive $4.625 Million As Reward Knowingly overcharging the government for goods and services can be a violation of federal and State law depending on which level of government has been defrauded.  See federal False […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Complicated Deferred Annuities Unsuitable For Seniors Beware of High-Pressured Sales Tactics Like “Estate Planning Seminars” “Bonuses” Are Marketing Gimmicks Insurance companies offer sales commissions as high as 10 percent to insurance agents who sell products like long-term deferred annuities to senior citizens.  In our current economic environment, agents […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER IRS And Courts Take Different Approaches One Court Says Rewards Not Taxable Individuals receive rewards when the government recovers from wrongdoers in actions (known as “qui tams”) brought under the federal False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq. The San Diego whistleblower attorneys at Evans […]