ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Victim Signed Blank Checks Caregivers Allegedly Gave False Reasons For Checks Alleged Fraud Discovered By Family Member Financial elder abuse of a senior is a crime and grounds for civil liability for the person taking the money and anyone assisting them.  Penal Code § 368 and Cal. Welf. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Be Wary Of “Retirement Counseling” Sessions Sales Of Nationwide New Heights© Annuities If you are a soon-to-retire federal employees here in California be careful: you may be invited to a “counseling session” or seminar.  Retirement seminars are sometimes held in union halls, hotels or other spaces accommodating large […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Loss Of Control Of Investment Penalties On Withdrawals  Sales Commissions, Contract Fees And Low Returns Deferred annuities are complex, long-term insurance products which are not generally suitable for older consumers.  Evans Law Firm, Inc. recommends against certain types of deferred annuities, such as fixed indexed annuities, for older […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Abuse Of Barricaded, Disabled Man Two Caregivers Charges With Failure To Report Caregivers Charged With Murder, Elder Abuse, And Neglect Stories of intentional abuse of dependent adults can be difficult to read.  A few weeks ago, we wrote on one such case where an elderly victim was beaten […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER More Than $1 Million Stolen Victims Are 96 And 84 Years Old Money Allegedly Withdrawn Over Three-Year Period While any senior can be victims of financial elder abuse, the older a senior gets, the more at risk they are and those who suffer from dementia are particularly vulnerable. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Cases Of Sexual Assault Of Elderly Rising Care Home Residents At Risk Recent Prosecution Of Aide For Sexual Assault Statistics of sexual assault and rape in care facilities is as horrific as it sounds: nursing home residents are increasingly at risk of sexual assault and rape. Statistics show […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER How Agents Abuse Powers Of Attorney Examples Of Power Of Attorney Abuse Laws On Power Of Attorney Misuse Powers of Attorney are extremely important – and, in the wrong hands, potentially dangerous – legal instruments. Financial powers of attorney (POAs) grant full authority over a person’s financial affairs, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Surrender Penalties And Illiquidity Locked In To Investment Strategies Sales Commissions, Annual Fees And Low Returns Fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) and other deferred annuities are long-term, complex insurance policies which require you to lose control over your investment.  Seniors and those close to retirement are often targeted by […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER One Victim’s Son First Alerts Police Over 100 Fraudulent Card Charges Alleged Resident Unable To Pay Rent Due To Depleted Account Balance Elderly victims of financial elder abuse are often preyed upon in their own homes by dishonest in-home caregivers.  But elderly persons residing in nursing homes or […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER $51 Million Settlement Reached Allegations Of Unnecessary Billing Realtors Will Share $12.75 Million Reward In Fiscal Year 2021, private citizens helped the government recover $1.6 billion in cases of fraud against the government.  The citizens, known as “relators,” brough the cases, referred to as “qui tam” cases,” under the False […]