Category: Evans Law Firm

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER  What Are Powers of Attorney? A Power of Attorney (POA) is a very important legal document where the principal authorizes an agent to act on the principal’s behalf in business transactions and more. California seniors often execute POAs when their own ability to manage their affairs becomes impaired […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Whistleblowers and Healthcare Fraud Health care fraud costs the country tens of billions of dollars a year. Even worse, patients are often harmed in these schemes when their care is subordinated to the greed of healthcare providers perpetrating the fraud.  Frauds include false billing, improper diagnoses, kickbacks, sales […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower Process and Awards Millions Paid In Awards The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rewards people who provide specific and credible information to the IRS of offshore tax avoidance and other tax fraud schemes when the information leads to recovery of unpaid taxes. Last year, the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A Closer Look At Variable Annuities and Seniors Variable annuities are complex annuity contracts with securities and insurance features. Returns on variable annuities fluctuate with the market making these complicated contracts especially dangerous for seniors. The complexity and confusion surrounding the terms of variable annuities can lead to […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Insurance Agent Takes $1 Million From Elderly Client A Recent Case Makes Headlines We at Evans Law Firm represent clients harmed as the result of insurance agents who financially abuse their elder clients. The harm an unscrupulous insurance agent can inflict is serious and can involve a lot […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Unfair Practices by Lender Senior Debtor’s Case Moves Forward A recent California case[1] illustrates a consumer’s rights against debt collectors using unfair practices when trying to collect on a debt.  In the case, an elder homeowner received notice that a mortgage company intended to foreclose on his home.  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Seniors Beware of Deferred Annuities The devil’s in the details. The old idiom is true of much in life. Insurance contracts surely live up to the saying, and none more so than complicated annuities. The Alameda County and California financial elder abuse, annuities and securities attorneys at Evans […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Stockbrokers Who Prey on Senior Citizens Mention “elder abuse” and many people, including seniors, conjure up images of the fleecing of Brooke Astor’s estate or an elderly relative kept in squalid conditions. What gets far less attention is a subtle though prevalent form of elder abuse–the sort perpetrated […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Full and Partial Surrenders Athene Annuity and Life Company, formerly Aviva Annuity and Life Company, issues fixed indexed annuities in California. These contracts, like all deferred annuities, include penalties for early withdrawals, known as surrenders.  Surrenders may be full (withdrawing the entire value of the contract) or partial […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Fighting Harm to Senior Citizens The California elder abuse attorneys at Evans Law Firm, Inc. know that whenever they sue insurance agents and carriers for financial elder abuse they’re in for a fight. Our lawyers are prepared for that fight. Agents and carriers will likely move to dismiss […]