Category: Bay Area

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Two women were arrested by the police on suspicion of elder abuse, specifically to have misrepresented themselves as employees of Placer County Health and Human Services to an 89 year old person. They posed as county employees and persuade their victim to move in and give them money […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER It’s a sad truth that as we get older, we are more and more likely to be taken advantage of by those around us, be it emotionally, financially, or physically. Seniors are frequent targets of scams, tend to be isolated from support, and may lack the physical or […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Healthcare fraud is often a fairly technical area of law: large companies misusing funds, fraudulently billing Medicare or Medi-Cal, or improperly treating patients not in need of expensive procedures. Cases often revolve around class disputes, the finer points of qui tam law and the false claims act, or […]

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is looking at reducing Medicaid home equity caps and community spouse income. The Committee wishes to save money by making cuts in Medicaid expenses. But the Committee cannot exceed a minimum of $500,000 plus inflation according to the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. However, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The California Secretary of Health and Human Services, Diana Dooley, is suing to prevent the dumping of nursing homes residents, which is in violation of federal law. The lawsuit alleges that California nursing homes send their Medi-Cal residents into hospitals and then refuse to readmit them to the […]

Nursing homes in California are deficient in several domains. There are on average twelve deficiencies per certified nursing facility in the state. Most of the time it concerns the facility infrastructure and the activities provide by the employees. But sometimes it directly impacts on the health of the residents. Indeed, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Background San Mateo Elder abuse Attorneys are gratified to learn that the board of supervisors has voted to spend a portion of state funds on creating a task force to help combat financial elder abuse and nursing home abuse. Attorneys, counsellors, law enforcement and advocates have all banded […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER On Tuesday, November 10th, eight people have been charged by the FBI for abusing California’s workers insurance compensation system. They are medical providers accused of receiving bribes and kickbacks in exchange for providing treatments to injured workers even though it was not necessary. This insurance fraud abuses the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER San Francisco Nursing Home Abuse Attorneys Discuss the State of Elder Care It’s well known that the tech boom has driven up costs for everyone and everything in San Francisco. Apartments, groceries, bridge toll, and now, advocates say, nursing home costs. California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, CANHR […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Attorneys Discuss Santa Clara County Elder Abuse Origins of the case In Santa clara country recently, a scam involving telemarketing and reverse mortages is being brought to court. Several elderly residents were caught up on the complicated scam, and the scam artist, now being tried in court, took […]