Category: Deferred Annuity

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER SEC Alert: Stories From The Front Line Major Red Flag: Spectacular Returns and “Guarantees” Seek Help If You Have Been Defrauded One significant forms of financial elder abuse is the sale to seniors of unsuitable insurance products.  These products, such as deferred annuities and some unsuitable life insurance […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Seniors And Fixed Indexed Annuities High Commissions, Fees, And Surrender Penalties Policy Exchanges As Taxable Events Deferred annuities are complex insurance products.  Carriers that issue the products pay handsome sales commissions to the agents who sell the products to consumers.  With old consumers especially, an agent may propose […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Deferred Annuities Are Complex and Expensive The Greatest Consumer Risk: Not Understanding What You’ve Been Sold Our lawyers recommend you always beware when an insurance agent tries to sell you annuities or life insurance, particularly if you’re a senior. Annuities are complicated insurance products with a lot of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Plan Retirement Investments With Care Avoid Deferred Annuities With Steep Surrender Charges and Certain Types of Life Insurance The closer you get to retiring the more you try and save for the future. While saving as much as you can is important, where you put those savings is […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Seniors Beware of Deferred Annuities Deferred annuities are complicated insurance policies where the policyholder pays a premium today for a series of income payments in the future. Carriers and agents sell deferred annuities with fixed interest rates, variable rates, and in policies offering fixed and variable funds. All […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Broker Pushed More Expensive Variable Annuities L-Share and B-Share Variable Annuities Not all variable annuities are the same. Carriers offer B-share contracts with long surrender charge periods and L-share policies with shorter surrender periods but higher fees and commissions.  Both types of variable annuities may be inappropriate for […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Fighting Harm to Senior Citizens The California elder abuse attorneys at Evans Law Firm, Inc. know that whenever they sue insurance agents and carriers for financial elder abuse they’re in for a fight. Our lawyers are prepared for that fight. Agents and carriers will likely move to dismiss […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Transamerica Life Insurance Company Variable Annuities The California annuity attorneys at Evans Law Firm Inc. represent clients who have suffered losses from surrenders and fees on all types of annuity contracts, including fixed, indexed, and variable deferred annuities. These contracts charge sales commissions, rider fees and other benefit […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Jackson National Life Insurance Company Deferred Annuities The annuity attorneys at Evans Law Firm Inc. represent clients over age 60 in California who have suffered losses on all types of annuity contracts, including fixed, indexed, and variable deferred annuities. Often, the policyholder suffers loss on surrender of their […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Lincoln Financial Deferred Annuities The annuity attorneys at Evans Law Firm Inc. have experience representing clients who have suffered losses on all types of annuity contracts, including fixed, indexed, and variable deferred annuities. All of these contracts charge penalties on full or partial surrenders. Lincoln Financial issues fixed, […]