Category: Elder Theft

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Unbeknownst to many, September is Life Insurance Awareness month, as well as National Yoga Month, National Bourbon Heritage Month, National Papaya Month, and National Prostate Health Month. While the last four are all nationally recognized, the first is a marketing event put on by Life Happens, a non-profit […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER At first glance, Indexed Universal Life Insurance sounds like a dream come true: guaranteed market returns on your life insurance and a solid floor to prevent you from losing your primary. But there’s a reason some Insurers are pushing Indexed Universal Life policies: they don’t perform the way […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Though long overdue, the field of Elder Justice just got a new playbook. Prepared from a survey of hundreds of stakeholders, funded by the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services, and compiled by top experts in the field, the Elder Justice Roadmap lays […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Statistics reflect that 1 in every 7 senior citizens will fall victim to elder abuse. Unfortunately, elder abuse attorneys note, that very often it’s a family member or close family friend that is the abuser. In fact many victims of elder abuse refuse to report it because of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER If you’re thinking of buying Index Universal Life Insurance or Variable Universal Life Insurance, you might want to think again. These types of Life Insurance rarely return what they cost, and frequently fail to perform anywhere near what consumers are told. Before taking that risk, we want to […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER About one quarter of elderly Americans rely on their children or other family members to help make decisions about their finances. California financial elder abuse attorneys say that this can be quite complicated, and offer a number of tips for helping your parent or other elderly relative with […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER You don’t expect the manager of a major bank to walk off with hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money, yet this appears to be a crime perpetrated with increasing regularity against elders in California. Oakland banker Linda Sue Foss was recently charged by the Alameda County […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial elder abuse – The Los Gatos police department recently took a report from an elderly victim of a sweepstakes scam.  The elderly victim was allegedly defrauded out of large sums of money by suspects whose identities are unknown at this time.  The elderly victim reported being defrauded […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A financial adviser based in the Salinas area was recently accused of financial elder abuse.  According to the Monterey County district attorney’s office, the defendant was charged with one count of felony financial elder abuse.  The defendant in this case operates a business assisting people with the management […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A Bay Area couple was recently charged with elder abuse and accused of embezzling more than $800,000 from an elderly victim.  The couple took advantage of an elderly victim after the death of his wife left him emotionally vulnerable.  The money was spent on a variety of things, […]