ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Risky Business of Buying Insurance What is Long Term Care Insurance? Insurance is supposed to protect you from risk. By paying your premiums over the years, you ensure that when something bad finally does happen to you, you’ll have the funds necessary to assist you and remedy […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER In 2016, we have lots of older adult resulting from the Baby Boom. In California, seniors have certain protections under the law, designed to prevent fraud from being perpetrated against elders. You are considered an elder adult before the California rules when you are more than 65 years […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Market and Your Life Insurance For most life insurance policyholders, there’s no particular reason to be concerned about what effect the market will have on your policy. Why should you? Life insurance is traditionally rock solid, and a temporary upset in the market has no bearing whatsoever […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Whistleblowers in Qui Tam Tax Cases In a qui tam tax case, an individual, as known as a whistleblower, reports to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a tax fraud. The whistleblower or reporter has 3 years from the time the fraudulent tax return was filed for making a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Health Care Providers seek to weaken False Claims Act Healthcare is one of the areas most frequently involved in qui tam cases, and by restricting the avenues available for prosecutors to pursue claims against nursing homes, health care facilities, and pharmaceutical companies, lobbyists hope to prevent the government […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER In California, elder abuse occurs when one takes advantage of the real or personal property of a senior who is over the age of 65. Recently, a case was related of a senior who was financially abused by his own daughter. She stole $320,000.00 from him by draining […]

The whistleblower division is responsible for processing thousands of tax whistleblower claims annually. Private individuals, known as whistleblowers, are authorized to bring on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service division a tax fraud suit to recover money lost. The IRS division shares the money recovered with the whistleblowers, and because […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER What Makes Annuities Sell? Annuities have become a very prominent part of the financial landscape, with large numbers of senior citizens buying them in order to secure their financial future. Looking at the details of the product, however, it’s not clear that any of the many types of […]

The False Claims Act (FCA) is a federal law that imposes liability on federal contractors who defraud governmental programs. The Government is usually the most appropriate to act against fraud, but the FCA includes a qui tam provision that allows people, called the relators or whistleblower, to file actions on […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Variable Annuities Examined in Priority by SEC for 2016, Advantage and Disadvantage The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) disclosed its examination priorities list for 2016. The SEC is focused on retirement investments, and especially variable annuities as a retirement product warranting attention. The insurance companies are interested in […]