ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Improper Claims For Payments Allegedly Submitted $7 Million Settlement Whistleblower To Receive Over $1.2 Million Reward Fraud against the government costs taxpayers billions every year and the majority of fraudulent claims submitted to the government for payment arise from the healthcare sector.  To combat this fraud, private citizens […]

Evans Law Firm, Inc. is proud to announce that the firm’s founder, Ingrid M. Evans, has once again been selected for inclusion in Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers.®  First published in 2007, Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers ® uses a combination of independent journalistic research and peer review to select […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Deferred Annuities Are Not For Seniors Costly, Complex Contracts Withdrawals Penalties, Commissions And Fees Deferred annuities are contracts where the policy holder makes an upfront premium payment in exchange for an income stream in years to come.  The concept sounds simple enough but in fact deferred annuities, like […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER $1 Million Missing From Elder’s Accounts Fraudulent Checks And Phony “Gifts” Remedies For Seniors And Their Families Older persons lose more than $3 billion annually as a result of financial elder abuse, according to FBI and National Institute of Justice statistics. The true figure is likely much, much […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Allegedly Goes On Spree With Seniors’ Debit Card 15 Unauthorized Charges Alleged Remedies For Seniors And Their Families Unauthorized use of seniors’ credit and debit cards is a common type of fraud perpetrated on seniors by dishonest caregivers or other strangers with access to an elderly person’s […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Professor’s Estate Left To Wife’s Caregiver Estate Attorneys Claim Coercion And Undue Influence Protecting Older Loved Ones Isolated seniors are vulnerable to financial exploitation from many directions.  Such isolated older persons are particularly vulnerable to financial exploitation by caregivers.  The exploitation can be relatively minor in monetary terms […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Takes $30 Million Estate Attorneys Claim Coercion And Undue Influence Protecting Older Loved Ones Isolated seniors are vulnerable to financial exploitation from many directions.  Such isolated older persons are particularly vulnerable to financial exploitation by caregivers.  The exploitation can be relatively minor in monetary terms in some […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Stolen Identities Of Patients Alleged Victim’s Family Spots Unauthorized Transactions Protecting Older Loved Ones Unauthorized purchases and unauthorized online access to a senior’s bank accounts are recurring forms of financial elder abuse.  We at Evans Law Firm, Inc. see these kind of financial elder abuse cases practically every […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Camera Footage Captures Alleged Assault Assault And Torture Charges 93-Year-Old Victim 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 seniors suffering from dementia.  Evans Law Firm, Inc. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER U.S. Treasury Department Unit Releases Report $27 Billion In Elder Financial Suspicious Activities Protecting Older Loved Ones Recent statistics, released by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and discussed below, indicate that the financial toll of financial elder abuse is possibly as much as $27 billion annually. All […]