Category: Insurance Fraud

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Insurance Agent Accused Of Stealing Seniors’ Premium Payments Allegedly Swindles 93-Year Old Client Funeral Insurance Policy Scam Seniors are vulnerable to financial elder abuse from many quarters, and insurance agents are among those who can swindle seniors out of money.  In one recently reported case,[1] police and the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Understand The Drawbacks Annuities Are Insurance Policies Not Investments Do Not Be Rushed Into A Sale Insurance agents use market downturns like the one we saw in March to push fixed indexed annuities as a “safe” alternative for retirement savings. Don’t let an agent sell you anything until […]

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 Downsides to Variable and Indexed Annuities Know the Risks Before You Buy Insurance industry figures show sales of variable and indexed annuities have increased in the past few months. Our litigators recommend against variable and indexed annuities for any consumers, especially seniors. All annuities are complicated and risky, […]

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 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 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, […]