Lawdragon recently recognized San Francisco Financial Fraud and Elder Abuse attorney Ingrid M. Evans of Evans Law Firm, Inc. as one of their 2022 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers in the United States. This list features the top 500 lawyers nationwide that represent plaintiffs individually or through class actions in consumer […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Indexed Annuities Are Complex Insurance Policies Indexed Annuities Are Not Direct Fund Investments Surrender Charges, Fees And Return Calculations Indexed annuities are a particularly complicated variety of deferred annuities.  Despite the tile of this product and the various “funds” or “buckets” you may be offered to allocate your […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nationwide Life and Annuity Insurance Company Annuities Nationwide’s New Heights© and High Point© Products Nationwide Life and Annuity Insurance Company, part of the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Group, issues fixed indexed annuities in California under the trade names Nationwide New Heights©, Nationwide High Point 365 ©, and Nationwide High […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Surveillance Cameras Captures Horrific Abuse Care Home Patient Abused And Left To Die Two Caregivers Charges With Murder, Elder Abuse, And Neglect Often, stories of abuse and neglect of nursing home residents are so horrific they are difficult to read.  One such case appeared in the news recently […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver And Assisting Relative Financially Exploited Senior Police Say More Than $171,000 Taken Victim’s Daughter First Detected Suspicious Checks Theft from a victim is over 65 is straight theft but is also criminal financial elder abuse and grounds for civil liability against the person who took the property […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Misappropriation Of Funds By Trustees Removal And Damages For Beneficiaries Enhanced Remedies Under Elder And Dependent Adult Abuse Act While many Californians create trusts to hold their assets, seniors and dependent adults in particular may do so because they can no longer manage their own financial affairs and […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Many California teachers invest in annuities to supplement their retirement income. Insurance agents often attempt to sell teachers annuities because insurance laws in California allow agents to solicit payroll deferrals directly from individual teachers. These payroll deferral arrangements are commonly called “403(b) plans.” Agents tend to promote annuities […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Alleged Scheme Ran For Six Years 30 Elderly Investors Lost Money Charges Of Financial Elder Abuse, And Securities Law Violations While financial elder abuse may be limited to isolated transactions exploiting specific older individuals, financial elder abuse may also be perpetrated on numerous elderly victims.  Seniors are often […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Cash, Checks And Credit Cards Stolen From Patient Rooms Two Prior Convictions For Financial Elder Abuse Theft Estimated At $18,000 Any nursing home residents is at risk of financial elder abuse at the hands of any unscrupulous caregivers, staff, and employee in the business office.  The thefts may […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Deferred Annuities Are Complex Products What To Watch For Avoid Replacements And Exchanges Deferred annuities are complicated investments.  Some bear complex qualities of both life insurance and securities products; contracts run from 50 to 100 pages or more and are filled with technical language and actuarial tables. Insurance agents […]