Category: Elder Financial Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial, Physical, Psychological, and Sexual Elder Abuse and Neglect Protect Senior Loved Ones and Friends: Look for Signs of Abuse Elders More Vulnerable Than Ever Before Elder abuse takes many forms, and all are devastating: financial, physical, emotional or sexual abuse or harmed from neglect or abandonment. See […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Jewelry, Cash, Checks, and Personal Information Jewelry and Family Keepsakes Preventing Caregiver Theft We often write about caregivers taking cash, credits cards and checks from seniors and even getting their hands on seniors’ homes and financial accounts through fraud and undue influence. But jewelry and family keepsakes can […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Seniors Targets of Financial Elder Abuse If You’re a Victim, We Can Help When Brokers, Agents, and Advisors Prey on the Elderly Stock brokers, insurance agents and financial advisors often target the elderly and ingratiate themselves to older persons in order to sell them products they do not […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Social Isolation And The Danger Of Elder Abuse Staying In Touch More Important Than Ever Financial Abusers Take Advantage Of Isolation As our litigators have shared before, social isolation is a common denominator in almost all the financial elder abuse cases we see. When a senior is isolated, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Understand The Costs And Downsides Deferred Annuities Are Insurance Policies Not Fund Investments Do Not Be Rushed Into A Sale When selling annuities to senior citizens, insurance agents may gloss over the fine print and leave out some important details about how annuities actually work. Our litigators recommend […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Understand The Drawbacks Annuities Are Insurance Policies Not Investments Do Not Be Rushed Into A Sale Insurance agents use market downturns like the one we saw in March to push fixed indexed annuities as a “safe” alternative for retirement savings. Don’t let an agent sell you anything until […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Cash, Checks, and Personal Information Caregivers Steal Property and Identity Preventing Caregiver Theft In-home caregivers have access to a senior’s cash, bank accounts, other valuables and perhaps worst of all confidential information that provides access to accounts or impersonation of a senior in financial matters. In one recently […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Cash, Checks, and Caregivers The Danger of Checking Accounts in Easy Reach Preventing Caregiver Theft In-home caregivers have access to a senior’s cash, bank accounts, important papers and other valuables if you don’t take precautions to prevent such access. Greedy caregivers strike quickly and one of their schemes […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Seniors Targets of Financial Elder Abuse If You’re a Victim, We Can Help Unscrupulous stockbrokers, insurance agents, financial advisors and retirement planners prey on seniors with “opportunities” of higher returns in a low-interest-rate environment. Be careful. Annuities or high-risk investments are unsuitable for seniors and can lead to […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Enhanced Remedies For Victims Include Attorneys’ Fees Awards Appellate Court Broadens Attorneys’ Fees Awards The California Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act, the “Elder Abuse Act,” protects elders against financial and other abuse “by providing enhanced remedies which encourage private, civil enforcement of laws against elder […]