Category: Financial Exploitation

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER California life insurance and annuity fraud attorneys warn consumers that insurance policy illustrations may be misleading and create heightened expectations for unrealistic results. Illustrations can be a useful way to demonstrate and understand how a policy, such as an indexed universal life policy (IUL), may work. However, they […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The insurance commissioners association has been working on new rules to limit captive reinsurance, and formed a new working group to study why captive reinsurance has now spilled over from life insurance into annuities. The group is led by Nick Gerhart, Iowa’s insurance commissioner. A recent New York […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The National Center on Elder Abuse wants to make the public aware of “The Grandparent Scam,” a scam targeting the elderly. The Grandparent Scam attempts to get an elderly person to wire a large sum of money, and losses are usually several thousand dollars per victim. In the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Los Angeles detectives are urging victims of an elder abuse scam to come forward, after two women were arrested earlier this month and charged with attempted elder abuse, attempted grand theft and conspiracy. The two women, Margaret Souza, 48, and Teneca Wilson, 31, are alleged to have met […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER FINRA, the national association of securities traders, has published new research on how financial abuse affects victims. The study aimed to look at financial fraud from the victim’s perspective, including their experiences, reactions, and the potential indirect financial costs and non-financial consequences of being defrauded. The report issued […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A consumer advisory regarding pension advances has been issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A pension advance is a cash advance in exchange for future pension payments. These companies often charge high interest rates and fees. Although it is illegal for lenders to take a military or […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Seniors have increasingly become a target of many crimes. As elders get older, their ability to make smart financial decisions become tougher. As a result, elders will often fall prey to financial elder abuse. According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, financial elder abuse is the illegal […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Seniors and elders are the main targets for insurance and annuity scams. Scammers may set up fake insurance companies or loan seniors and elders money to invest in insurance using fake applications so when the senior or elder dies, the scammer receives all the money. Read the following […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Indexed Universal Life insurance policies are a type of permanent life insurance policy that bases its gains on how the stock market performs. If the stock market is doing well, then gains are higher and vice versa.  However, some insurance agents may be providing buyers with misleading information […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Astonishingly, even before completing discovery, or trial, one of two federal fraud suits against Omnicare has returned an unprecedented settlement, a staggering $124 million. The two qui tam suits filed against Omnicare are: United States ex rel Gale v. Omnicare, Inc., and United States ex rel Silver v. […]