Category: Insurance Fraud

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER California Insurance Fraud Whistleblower Cases Whistleblowers Rewarded The California Insurance Frauds Prevention Act (“CIFPA”) allows members of the public to file private whistleblower/qui tam suits against anyone who commits insurance fraud in the State of California.  Cal. Ins. Code § 1871.7.  There have been several large whistleblower settlements […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Dangers of Premium Payment Loans Tax Consequences Borrowing against a whole life insurance policy can have serious economic and tax consequences down the road if policyholders are not careful. Insurance agents use the fact that policyholders can borrow against the cash value of whole life policies as part […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER How Insurance Agents Financially Exploit Seniors California Insurance Department Detectives Arrests Unscrupulous insurance agents, financial advisors and trustees target vulnerable seniors for financial elder abuse. Sometimes law enforcement catches up with them fortunately. Recently, Detectives with the California Insurance Department arrested an insurance agent and a financial advisor […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER How Insurance Agents Financially Exploit Seniors California Insurance Department Detectives Arrests Unscrupulous insurance agents, financial advisors and trustees target vulnerable seniors for financial elder abuse. Sometimes law enforcement catches up with them fortunately. Recently, Detectives with the California Insurance Department arrested an insurance agent and a financial advisor […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER FINRA Levies Big Fines in 2018 for Sales of Unsuitable Annuities and Other Misconduct The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) polices financial advisor fraud including recommendations of unsuitable annuities. The agency detected a disturbing trend of sales to consumers, including seniors, of unsuitable products and “largely unsupervised” inappropriate […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER How Insurance Agents Can Financially Exploit Seniors Unscrupulous insurance agents can really wreak havoc on a senior’s finances. Agent misconduct ranges from outright theft to more subtle forms of exploitation such as selling unsuitable life insurance and annuity policies or churning a senior’s existing policies into new ones […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Fraud Up as Annuity Sales Increase Unsuitable Products and Churning Annuity sales are up and so are cases of fraud, especially on seniors. The fraud on seniors varies but typically involves either the sale of unsuitable products or unlawful “churning,” where agents convince annuity owners to trade one […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Elder Abuse Protections Expanding Cases Against Insurance Companies and Agents Grow Over the past few years, financial elder abuse cases and protections have steadily expanded, particularly in California. Financial elder abuse attorneys at Evans Law Firm have been in the forefront of this expansion in both the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Life Insurance Salesmen Convicted on Felony Charges for Fraud The Case of Life Insurance Fraud Earlier this year, two life insurance salesmen were arrested in California and charged with multiple charges, including identify theft, insurance fraud, and forgery. It is alleged that two agents both in their thirties, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER What Duty Does An Agent Owe You? Putting You First We at Evans Law Firm have for years litigated the question of an insurance agent’s duty to his clients, particularly when it comes to life insurance and/or annuities. We have written on the subject in this column. As […]