ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Claims of Coercion, Fraud And Financial Elder Abuse Presley’s Lawsuit Seeks Over $1 Million In Damages Protecting Older Persons From Fraud While often the financial predators of seniors are newcomers in their lives or even total strangers, seniors may also be victims of financial elder abuse from those […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Complicated And Costly Insurance Policies Penalties For Getting Your Money Back Unfavorable Interest Crediting Formulas Evans Law Firm, Inc. generally recommends against certain types of deferred annuities especially for seniors because these complex insurance policies carry high fees, lack transparency and are illiquid. The contracts are illiquid because […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER 79-Year-Old Roommate Charged With Murder Family Sues Nursing Home For Lack Of Supervision Remedies For Injured Seniors And Families Sadly, seniors under in-home care or residing in nursing homes or assisted care facilities are at risk of physical and emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and abandonment.  See Cal. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Risk Of Abuse In Nursing Homes And Other Care Facilities Recent Case Examples Remedies For Injured Victims And Families Stories of intentional abuse or wanton neglect/abandonment of seniors in assisted care facilities or nursing homes are difficult to read but abuse is a real threat, particularly for those […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Allegedly Drugged To Prevent Wandering Patient Received Sedatives Without Physician Consultation Family Brings Wrongful Death Suit A very dangerous, and sadly common, behavior pattern of Alzheimer sufferers and persons with other forms of dementia is wandering away, also known as elopement.  Responsible facilities use alarm systems to alert […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER California Insurance Fraud Whistleblower Cases Whistleblowers Rewarded Attorneys’ Fees And Expense Awards The California Insurance Frauds Prevention Act (“CIFPA”) allows members of the public to file private whistleblower/qui tam suits against anyone who commits insurance fraud in the State of California.  Cal. Ins. Code § 1871.7.  There have […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER How The IRS Whistleblower Program Works Mandatory vs. Discretionary Rewards How Whistleblowers Apply For Rewards Subject to certain thresholds and limitations, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rewards people who blow the whistle on corporations and individuals who fail to pay the tax that they owe.  Internal Revenue Code […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Allegedly Knowingly Retained Overpayments For Care  Ten Years Of False Claims Alleged Numerous Whistleblowers To Be Rewarded Private citizens and businesses help the government recover billions every year in cases of fraud against the government. The private citizens and businesses assisted the government in recovering these funds by […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Reported Case Example Over 100 Fraudulent Credit Card Charges Protecting Seniors Stolen checks, credit card theft, missing cash and valuables, stolen identity, unauthorized online money transfers, forgeries -all of these crimes are among the forms of financial elder abuse perpetrated on older persons. California broadly defines what constitutes […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Physical And Financial Abuse Of The Same Victim Caregiver Arrested On Multiple Charges Theft And Reckless Endangerment Alleged Sadly, there are dishonest persons hired as in-home caregivers for the elderly who spend their time stealing from their patients instead of caring for them.  Incidents of caregiver abuse often […]