ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Another Facility Employee Notices Blood On Bed Victim Has No Memory Of Anything Police Use DNA Evidence Statistics show that 20,000 incidents of sexual abuse, assault and rape in nursing homes have been reported to the authorities over the last two decades, and the numbers are increasing year […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Attorney/CPA/Investment Advisor Allegedly Embezzled $2 Million Falsely Promised Seniors High Returns Funneled Investor Money Into Personal Accounts Evans Law Firm, Inc. represents seniors themselves who are victims of financial elder abuse and the children or other next of kin of deceased seniors who have been financially exploited.  Often […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Plaintiffs Win Verdict Against For-Profit Nursing Home Chain Patient Neglect Lead To Stage IV Pressure Wound Complaint Alleged Understaffing To Blame Physical and emotional abuse, neglect, and abandonment are all forms of elder abuse that nursing home and assisted care facility residents may suffer.  See Cal. Welf. & […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Reports Of Financial Elder Abuse Rising At Alarming Rate Steps For Protecting Seniors Legal Remedies For Victims Of Financial Elder Abuse Reports of financial elder abuse of older Americans are rising at an alarming rate across the country. Financial exploitation of older Americans is not the inevitable consequence […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Wheelchair-Bound Patient Allegedly Abused Director Accused Of Cover-Up And Failure To Report Victim’s Daughter Notified Authorities Of Alleged Abuse Nursing home residents are almost completely unable to defend themselves against any kind of abuse.  They are usually in a facility precisely because they cannot take care of themselves […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Increasing Epidemic Of Financial Elder Abuse World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is June 15.  Established by the World Health Organization some years ago, the international day is intended to increase global awareness of the problem of elder abuse in all its forms.  Financial elder abuse is an […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Former Employee Alleges IRS Fraud By Church Complaint Filed In 2019 How Whistleblower Cases Begin The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rewards people who blow the whistle on corporations or other organizations who fail to pay the tax that they owe just as the False Claims Act rewards persons […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Increasing Reports Of Abuse In Nursing Homes Some Indicators Of Probable Abuse Or Neglect Know The Warning Signs In Order To Protect Loved Ones Sadly, seniors in assisted care facilities and nursing homes are at risk of abuse and neglect by the very persons paid to care for […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Spotting Power Of Attorney Abuse How Agents Use POAs To Enrich Themselves Stopping And Suing For POA Abuse A power of attorney is a document authorizing one or more people (“agent(s)” or “attorney(s)-in-fact”)) to act on behalf of another (the “principal”) in financial or medical matters. Financial powers of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Complaint Alleges Altered Checks And Forgeries Victim’s Account Allegedly Overdrawn By Caregiver’s Fraudulent Checks Unauthorized Debit Card Use Also Alleged We cannot emphasize strongly enough how important it is to keep checks, ATM/Debit cards, and cash away from caregivers or other strangers who enter a senior’s home.  Nor […]