Category: Elder Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Big Commissions on Unsuitable Annuity Exchanges FINRA Cracking Down Annuity salesman love to promote annuity exchanges, urging clients to swap one annuity for another. Big commissions incentivize salesmen for deals unsuitable to clients. For years, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has warned investors about the risks of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Cameras Might Help Contain Nursing Home Abuse Nursing Home Abuse Nursing home abuse is an ever-common tragedy in facilities nowadays. As our largest population segment ages into elders, more and more people face the possibility of time spent in nursing homes or other care facilities. This makes it […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Insatiable Appetite for Commissions Broker Stops At Nothing For Commission Dollars Sales commissions in the life insurance/annuity business are big. Typically, annuity commissions hover at 10% and whole life commissions much higher, at least in the first year of premium payments. In a recent case, a broker […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Arbitration Clause in Warranty Struck Down Consumer Protection California consumers gained added protection recently when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a manufacturer’s move to compel a consumer to arbitrate a dispute over product warranties. In Norcia v. Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, 845 F.3d 1279 (9th Cir. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER FINRA Senior Hotline Calls Lead to Help There are lots of unsavory people out there preying on senior citizens. Too often, the swindlers are financial advisors, insurance agents or brokers and bankers. People you should be able to trust. The reality is far different. Each year advisors, brokers […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Hospital and Nursing Home Accountability Government Agency Wants Inspection Results Publicized In a groundbreaking announcement, federal authorities are pushing to have details of hospital and nursing home inspections made public. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed that the results of private inspections of medical […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Abuse: Yet Another Form of Elder Abuse Elder Abuse Currently, the largest generation ever in our country’s history is becoming senior“. Growing old brings big change in one’s life and as more and more of our population ages the changes – and adjustments – to aging become […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER FINRA Announces Tough New Sanctions Cracking Down on Exploitation The financial industry is taking a long, hard look at the way its own people approach the consumer. Especially, the vulnerable consumer, who is most susceptible to exploitative practices and, in the case of seniors, financial elder abuse. The […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Following Up On CNN Report of Nursing Home Abuse What’s Being Done? We at Evans Law Firm wrote before on the recent, terrible CNN story about nursing home abuse. To recall, CNN last month reported on cases of sexual abuse in nursing homes occurring throughout the country at […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Elder Abuse: A Widespread Fraud National Awareness And The Case Of Brooke Astor Ten years ago, the grandson of wealthy philanthropist Brooke Astor found his grandmother living in squalor, isolated from her friends, malnourished, neglected, and low on money and help. She was 100 years old, suffering […]