Category: Elder Abuse

California Annuity Fraud Attorneys Discuss Transparency in Annuities ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER If you or someone you know is the owner of an annuity, you know firsthand exactly how confusing and complex those products can be. Buying one involves mountains of paperwork and piles of money. Annuities are major investments, and some […]

Transamerica, Fidelity and Guarantee, and Gambling with your Life ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER There’s a reason Life Insurance is considered a safe bet. For over a century, these policies have been among the most carefully regulated in the financial world. Insurers like Transamerica, Allstate, and Fidelity and Guarantee are obligated to have […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER San Francisco Annuity Fraud Attorneys Explain Why the World is Turning on Annuities What’s going on with annuities? It seems like annuities are suddenly at the center of a whirlwind in the financial industry. A scathing report by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a story in Forbes: just what is […]

San Francisco Elder Abuse Lawyers Discuss the Facts ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Background Marin County, the gem of the North Bay and one-time wealthiest county in America. Now seen as a nice place to retire or raise the kids, it is also the location of some high-stakes financial elder abuse cases. […]