Category: Los Angeles financial elder abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Locked In Contracts For Years No Control Over Investments Commissions, Fees And Administrative Costs As an industry saying goes, “Annuities are sold, not bought.” Don’t be one of the people who gets sold. Deferred annuities are long-term insurance contracts which require you to lose control over your investment, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Resolutions For The New Year Best Wishes For A Healthy And Safe New Year The attorneys at Evans Law Firm, Inc. wish everyone the best for 2024.  At Evans Law Firm, Inc. we fight for the rights of individuals, especially the elderly, against unfair or illegal treatment and […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Include Older Loved Ones In Your Holiday Plans Alone Time With Older Relatives And Friends Isolated Seniors Need Your Love Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year from all of us at Evans Law Firm!  We hope you spend as much time as you can […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elder Abuse Takes Many Forms What To Look For Keeping Older Loved Ones Safe The National Council on Aging says up to five million older Americans are abused yearly, and the annual loss by victims of financial elder abuse is estimated to be at least $36.5 billion. Elder abuse can […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Advisors And Customer Cognitive Decline On The Front Lines Of Protecting Older Customers From Financial Abuse Consequences Of Impaired Mental Capacity Cognitive decline is a fact of life among America’s aging population and financial advisors often find themselves on the front lines of an effort to protect […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER How Life Insurance Agents Can Defraud Seniors Case Examples Of Financial Elder Abuse And Fraud Protecting Older Loved Ones We have written often about how seniors may be victims of financial elder abuse from different directions – by caregivers, trustees, financial advisers, and life insurance agents, among others.  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Fraudulent Timesheets For Medicaid Reimbursement Elderly Victim Unaware Of Fraud Six Years Of Fraudulent Timesheets Alleged Dishonest caregivers with access to credit cards and debit cards of their elderly patients may quickly use the cards for unauthorized purchases and withdrawals.  Greedy caregivers may use those cards in stores, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Allegedly Forged Checks On Victim’s Account Suspect Placed Through Agency Non-Medical Services Provider Forged checks off a senior’s account are a common type of fraud perpetrated on seniors by dishonest caregivers or other strangers with access to an elderly person’s checkbook.  Often, financial elder abuse by forged checks […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Ponzi Scheme Targeting Mostly Older Customers Lost Savings And Homes At Risk Of Foreclosure Decades-Long Ponzi Scheme Seniors are often targets of Ponzi schemes, where money collected from new investors is used to pay existing investors, and there really is no actual investment of funds. Like the infamous […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Forms Of Elder Abuse Signs Of Neglect And Abuse Protecting Older Loved Ones The National Council on Aging says up to five million older Americans are abused yearly, and the annual loss by victims of financial elder abuse is estimated to be at least $36.5 billion. (That number could in […]