Category: Evans Law Firm

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Allegedly Stole Nearly $100,000 Charges Include Financial Elder Abuse, Embezzlement and Forgery Couple’s Family Discovered Financial Irregularities Forced isolation of seniors as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, together with the nation’s severe economic downturn have led to a huge spike in financial elder abuse cases throughout […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Isolation And Control Can Lead To Financial Abuse Caregivers, Strangers, Domestic Partners, Second Spouses Can All Be Predators Identifying Signs of Financial Abuse Elder abuse is often associated with behavior that displays outward signs – bruises from physical violence or insults and threats from verbal assaults, for example, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Blowing the Whistle on Bank and Lending Fraud The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 Reports of Bank Fraud May Entitle You To A Reward The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (“FIRREA”), 12 U.S.C. § 1833a et seq., and Financial Institutions […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Residents At Growing Risk of Neglect and Abuse Watching for Signs of Neglect and Abuse How Elder Abuse Counsel Can Help Elder laws protect all seniors and their assets. This includes protection for seniors living in a nursing home facility. In these settings, there is always […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Radiology Practice Settles Allegations in False Claims Qui Tam Case Former Employee/Whistleblower Will Receive Share Of $5 Million Payment  Department of Justice Targets Health Care Fraud The government (and taxpayers) lose billions of dollars every year to fraud in the health care industry, primarily through fraudulent claims to […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Settlement of False Claims Act Case Against Medical Equipment Provider $40.5 Million Settlement of Allegations  Three Former Employee/Whistleblowers Rewarded Employees and former employees are most often the individuals who may have come across fraud against the government by their employers, particularly in the health care industry where the […]

Ingrid M. Evans of the Evans Law Firm, Inc. along with paralegal Alfonzo Ramos are proudly representing the non-profit plaintiffs Friends of Muir Woods Park and Watershed Alliance of Marin in this CEQA action.  Environmentalists sue Marin over mountain subdivision

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Isolation Is Breeding Ground For Financial Abuse Unauthorized ATM Withdrawals Make Up Greatest Percentage Of Losses  Helping Isolated Seniors Throughout the United States and here in California and Santa Cruz County, incidents of financial elder abuse have skyrocketed as a result of the isolation of seniors, and the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Isolated Woman Falls Prey To Financial Abuse False Pretenses, Impersonations And Deceit Led To $4.85 Million Loss Federal Prosecution Awaits Defendant Elder advocates estimate that around five million seniors are financially exploited each year financially, with anywhere from $2.9-36.5 billion in personal financial losses annually. These astonishing figures are […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Indexed Universal Life Insurance (IULs) Pacific Life Insurance Company IULs Indexed universal life insurance (IULs) are often sold by agents as savings vehicles for the future. These policies can be costly and complicated. A number of carriers offer IULs.  Pacific Life Insurance Company (usually referred to just as […]