Category: Elder Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER San Diego area detectives have arrested a man for elder abuse.  Detectives are calling it their biggest gypsy arrest ever.  The defendant has taken advantage of elderly victims.  The victims are all women in their 80’s.  The defendant is a 35year-old male.  San Diego financial elder abuse attorneys […]

Last November, the Medical Board of California revoked the license of the former medical director of several nursing homes in the area. Dr. Ray Poon-Phang Seet was cited by the board for several acts of gross negligence, unprofessional behavior, incompetence, and writing prescriptions without prior examinations or medical necessity. According […]

In the New Year for 2014 there are four new elder protection laws that will affect elder abuse cases in a positive way in California, AB 140 adds the definition of “undue influence” for the California Probate Code (Prob. Code) which generally governs the process of distributing a decedent’s assets […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A former insurance agent from Los Angeles has been charged with financial elder abuse.  He was arrested and booked into jail on four felony counts of financial elder abuse.  The announcement of the arrest was made by the California Insurance Commissioner.  The defendant in this case is the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A new California Bill aims to provide respectful care for LBGT senior citizens.  Assembly Bill 663 passed the legislature with a vote of 26-11.  The bill was authored by Assembly member Jimmy Gomez and was sponsored by Equality California.  San Francisco elder abuse attorneys say that this bill […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Last month a Castro Valley assisted living facility was shut down by California Social Services.  What happened after the shutdown is cause for alarm.  According to news reports, patients were abandoned by caregivers after the temporary shutdown order.  Two days after the facility was shut down, paramedics responded […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Another case involving financial elder abuse is in the news in California.  This case was written up in an article in the California Bar Journal in October 2013.  The defendant in the case is a San Francisco attorney who befriended a 77 year old doctor from Maryland.  Then […]

In California, elder abuse lawyers are reporting a disturbing trend—an alarmingly high number of financial and physical abuse cases against older people are going unresolved. California’s Department of Public Health has a myriad of laws in place to ensure that health care workers such as live-in caretakers and assisted living […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The owner of an elder care facility in Sacramento has been charged with elder abuse and involuntary manslaughter.  The charges stem from the death of a resident at the Super Home Care facility.  The elderly victim in this case was hospitalized in June of 2012 with gaping bedsores.  […]

Elder abuse lawyers in San Francisco report that acts of serious physical, sexual, and verbal abuse are rampant in nursing homes across the country. A recently released study prepared by the Special Investigations Division of the House Government Reform Committee indicates that more than 5,000 institutions—one-third of all nursing homes […]