Category: Evans Law Firm

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tips for Whistleblowers What the SEC Looks For The SEC needs your help in tracking down securities fraud. Whistleblowers bring useful information to the SEC that can lead to investigation and prosecution – and a possible reward for the whistleblower’s help. In January of this […]

California Audit Exposes Poor Background Checks Performed Before Hiring For Positions Related To Elder Care Background Checks The California Department of Social Services’ Community Care Licensing Division is a sub-department that oversees 75,000 facilities throughout the state. Their essential job is to keep elders, children, and disabled members of the […]

Problems with Variable Annuities Are Variable Annuities Right for You? Retirement planning discussions these days often touch on annuities. Whether it’s a salesman’s pitch or a co-worker’s tip, you’ve likely heard of variable annuities. For decades, variable annuities were the darling of those who peddled retirement plans. No portfolio was […]

Self-Dealing Lawsuits Mount Against JP Morgan, Price, and Others Fiduciary Self-Dealing Injures Employee/Plan Participants Now, another participant in the JPMorgan Chase 401(k) Savings Plan has sued plan executives alleging that the plan favored JP Morgan investments over less-expensive investment options. That self-dealing, the complaint alleges, violates fiduciary duties under the […]

Broad Interpretation of Whistleblower Laws Should Favor Whistleblowers Whistleblowing Whistleblowing has been attracting media attention lately, and for good reason. Individuals are coming forward with important information regarding large corporations breaking regulations. In some cases, these individual employees are terminated, opening a whole new can of worms. Yet, a new […]

A Pill That Is Tough To Stomach: Healthcare Fraud Health Care Fraud In a recent year, the country spent $2.27 trillion on healthcare. In that same year, more than four billion health care claims were filed to insurance companies, some of which were, as expected, fraudulent. And while the sheer […]

Caregiver Abuse Rising As Boomers Become Seniors Caregiving With our largest generation of individuals now reaching the age of “senior,” elderly care will become a very important professional niche. Currently there are somewhere around 44 million individuals assisting and/or giving care to a senior today. And that number will grow […]

Seniors Scammed By Annuities Annuity Fraud As seniors in our communities of Santa Clara and elsewhere age, we find that their abilities to sniff out scam artists and their tactics becomes more difficult. This is particularly true when it comes to the purchase of annuities. We have found that sometimes […]

IRS Rewards Whistleblowers IRS Pays Whistleblowers to Turn in Tax Cheats Since the passage of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has rewarded thousands of Americans for original information on tax cheats. In its first decade, the whistleblower program helped the IRS […]

The Financial Elder Abuse Epidemic Financial Elder Abuse Sadly, financial elder abuse is only spreading and infecting individuals at terrifying rates, throughout San Francisco County and beyond. A recent study shows that somewhere around 3.2 million Americans were victims of financial elder abuse last year alone, with the average victim […]