ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Powers of Attorney and the Elderly A financial Power of Attorney (POA) is a very important legal document where the principal authorizes an agent to act on the principal’s behalf in business transactions and more.[1] Someone with a financial Power of Attorney has legal authority to transfer […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER How Insurance Agents Can Financially Exploit Seniors Unscrupulous insurance agents can really wreak havoc on a senior’s finances. Agent misconduct ranges from outright theft to more subtle forms of exploitation such as selling unsuitable life insurance and annuity policies or churning a senior’s existing policies into new ones […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Full and Partial Surrenders or Cancellations of Athene Annuity and Life Company Annuities Athene Annuity and Life Company, formerly Aviva Annuity and Life Company,[1] issues fixed indexed annuities in California.  These contracts, like all deferred annuities, include penalties for early withdrawals, known as surrenders.  Surrenders may be full […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Recovers Over $2.8 Billion Whistleblowers Lead Recovery Efforts Whistleblowers Initiated 75% of All Government FCA Recoveries Whistleblowers carry the laboring oar in enforcing laws against false claims to the government. Of the $2.8 billion recovered by the government in 2018 in False Claims Act (“FCA”)[1]cases, $2.1 billion, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Misleading Credit Repair Practices Understanding the Harm to Consumers The California consumer attorneys at Evans Law Firm, Inc. advise consumers to think long and hard before signing up for credit repair services. Credit repair companies advertise heavily through telemarketing and mass media but the services do not always […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER ”Our lives begin to end the day we are silent about things that matter.”  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elder abuse is a plague on this country and we cannot remain silent about it. Silence protects perpetrators, not their victims.  Nor can we rely on systems to fight […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Beware the Hard-Sell Free Steak Dinner High Pressure After a Free Meal Seniors and retirement investors grow anxious in a volatile stock market. Insurance agents seize on that anxiety to push annuities and life insurance as “safer” investments for the future.  One sales tactic is to offer a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Police Offer Reward In Response To Gruesome Attack On Senior Law Enforcement Moves Against Abusers Preying On The Elderly The San Francisco Police Department is really targeting the heinous crime of elder abuse. Earlier this week, we wrote of a combined law enforcement action that nabbed several persons […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Whistleblowers and State Tax Fraud California Missing Out It’s high time California allowed whistleblowers to bring false claim suits for unpaid State taxes or provided for whistleblower awards for tax fraud tips. As matters currently stand, California tax laws violations are excluded from the California False Claims Act. […]