Category: Elder Abuse California

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Wandering: A Real Danger With Alzheimer’s Sufferers Wandering (also known as elopement) is a common behavior for older persons suffering from dementia, especially those with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s victims are often disoriented and incapable of recognizing their surroundings or finding their way home if they have wandered off.  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER FINRA Levies Big Fines in 2018 for Sales of Unsuitable Annuities and Other Misconduct The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) polices financial advisor fraud including recommendations of unsuitable annuities. The agency detected a disturbing trend of sales to consumers, including seniors, of unsuitable products and “largely unsupervised” inappropriate […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Exploitation of Seniors Law Enforcement Nabs Abusers Preying on the Elderly Financial exploitation of the elderly comes in different shapes and sizes. Last week, local law enforcement apprehended two suspects alleged to have extorted more than $180,000 from members of San Francisco’s Chinese community in the final […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Residents at Risk of Abuse and Neglect When Quality Care Loses Out to the Bottom Line The nursing home abuse attorneys at Evans Law Firm, Inc. represent elderly persons injured by abuse or neglect in the nursing homes of Marin County and throughout California. Our attorneys […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER How Insurance Agents Can Financially Exploit Seniors Unscrupulous insurance agents can really wreak havoc on a senior’s finances. Agent misconduct ranges from outright theft to more subtle forms of exploitation such as selling unsuitable life insurance and annuity policies or churning a senior’s existing policies into new ones […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Misleading Credit Repair Practices Understanding the Harm to Consumers The California consumer attorneys at Evans Law Firm, Inc. advise consumers to think long and hard before signing up for credit repair services. Credit repair companies advertise heavily through telemarketing and mass media but the services do not always […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER ”Our lives begin to end the day we are silent about things that matter.”  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elder abuse is a plague on this country and we cannot remain silent about it. Silence protects perpetrators, not their victims.  Nor can we rely on systems to fight […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Beware the Hard-Sell Free Steak Dinner High Pressure After a Free Meal Seniors and retirement investors grow anxious in a volatile stock market. Insurance agents seize on that anxiety to push annuities and life insurance as “safer” investments for the future.  One sales tactic is to offer a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Police Offer Reward In Response To Gruesome Attack On Senior Law Enforcement Moves Against Abusers Preying On The Elderly The San Francisco Police Department is really targeting the heinous crime of elder abuse. Earlier this week, we wrote of a combined law enforcement action that nabbed several persons […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregivers and Financial Elder Abuse Keep Valuables and Important Papers in a Safe Place Whenever a stranger is in an elderly person’s home or nursing home room, the senior’s valuables are at risk of theft. Unscrupulous caregivers strike quickly and it may be some time before the senior […]