Category: Elder Abuse Law

Within the United States, seniors aged 65 and older control approximately $18 trillion in wealth, according to Barrons.  Unfortunately, managing all of this money can sometimes become challenging for older people, especially if they begin to experience dementia or other age-related cognitive and physical decline. While seniors should be able […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Understanding the Risks of Annuities FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, has made waves by fining Prudential Annuities Distributors, Inc., the wing of the financial giant Prudential that’s in charge of selling and managing the company’s annuities, for failing to prevent a theft of $1.3 million from a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER New Legal Landscape of Elder Law The U.S. House of representative has just approved legislation that would protect financial advisors who report financial elder abuse from lawsuits over breach of privacy. The law is designed to clarify what takes priority when dealing with the finances of the elderly, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Changing Rout of the Elder Justice Roadmap Last week, California became the 6th state in the U.S. to implement a law allowing terminally ill patients to take their own lives. The process of constructing, implementing, and regulating the law and its use has been an arduous and […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Opiods and Elder Abuse The opioid epidemic in America has brought about profound changes in many aspects of healthcare, the justice system, law enforcement, and mental health. As professionals from these areas try to cope with the extent to which opioids and opioid users affect their duties, it […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Legal Issues Surrounding an Aging Population Many of the major shifts in American society in the last half century can be attributed, directly or indirectly, to the baby boomer generation. It’s been known for years that as that generation ages, it will lead to major changes in employment, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Two women were arrested by the police on suspicion of elder abuse, specifically to have misrepresented themselves as employees of Placer County Health and Human Services to an 89 year old person. They posed as county employees and persuade their victim to move in and give them money […]

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 […]

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is looking at reducing Medicaid home equity caps and community spouse income. The Committee wishes to save money by making cuts in Medicaid expenses. But the Committee cannot exceed a minimum of $500,000 plus inflation according to the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. However, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER FBI investigates a Riverside nursing home The FBI is seeking any evidence in relation to alleged criminal activity at a nursing facility in Riverside. Our California nursing home abuse attorneys do not know the exact nature of the federal probe because the FBI keeps it under seal, but […]