Category: Elder Abuse

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 […]

California Law Prohibits Cross-Selling of Reverse Mortgages and Annuities Beware of Pressure Tactics Seniors in Alameda and Marin County and throughout the State of California are often approached to take out reverse mortgages on their homes. Often, these individuals have substantial equity and significant appreciation in home value but reduced […]

California Audit Exposes Poor Background Checks Performed Before Hiring For Positions Related To Elder Care Background Checks The California Department of Social Services’ Community Care Licensing Division is a sub-department that oversees 75,000 facilities throughout the state. Their essential job is to keep elders, children, and disabled members of the […]

Friends Or Foes: Studies In Financial Elder Abuse May Show Fluidity Financial Elder Abuse Studies are showing that just around 1 in 5 elders from San Francisco County and beyond are losing funds due to financial elder abuse, a crime that is seemingly running rampant across the country. One recent […]

Blowing The Whistle On Medicare Fraud Whistleblowing Recently, in the news and elsewhere, whistleblowing has become a hot topic of discussion. Most recently, whistleblowing has also drawn attention due to the awards given out by organizations such as the Internal Revenue Service and Securities and Exchange Commission. Yet, healthcare and […]

California Assembly Looks At Long Term Care The California State Assembly has introduced hundreds of new bills at the end of its Winter Term. A number of those bills address long-term care and elder abuse. We’d like to bring the bills concerning long term care to your attention and we […]

Department of Justice Rewards Medicare Whistleblower Physician Gets Large Whistleblower Award Recently, the Department of Justice (DOJ) awarded a physician over $11 million as an award for original information the doctor provided about large-scale Medicare fraud. Specifically, the whistleblower’s information led to a lengthy DOJ investigation that recouped $60 million […]

Seniors Scammed By Annuities Annuity Fraud As seniors in our communities of Santa Clara and elsewhere age, we find that their abilities to sniff out scam artists and their tactics becomes more difficult. This is particularly true when it comes to the purchase of annuities. We have found that sometimes […]