Advocates for Justice
In a groundbreaking ruling, the District Court in Lin v. JPMorgan Chase Bank has delivered a powerful message to financial institutions. Imagine a 79-year-old woman, whose trusted national bank enables ...
In you have a brokerage account it is subject to oversight by FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority). Over the past several years FINRA has implemented new protections for senior citizens. An ...
Defendants often cite Carter v. Prime Healthcare Paradise Valley LLC (2011) 198 Cal.App.4th 396 in support of their argument that the plaintiff’s complaint pleads a cause of action for professional ...
In September 2017 an East Palo Alto women was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for financial elder abuse. The prosecutors in the case, including San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe ...
Tens of thousands of Californians work in the state’s Skilled Nursing Facilities (“SNF”) and Assisted Living Facilities (“RCFE”). Much of this workforce is underpaid and overworked. Workers who ...
Chemical restraints are drugs that are given in nursing homes (skilled nursing facilities) for improper purposes – for example, to make a senior’s behavior more “manageable” and for staff ...
Fraud in nursing homes is rampant and takes every imaginable form – from the small scale (a staff member who take narcotics from elders to sell on the street) – to the massive (systematic defrauding of the ...
Senior advocates, including elder abuse attorneys, have long voiced opposition to the continued use of forced arbitration provisions in nursing home contracts. In a rule that becomes effective November 28 ...
Bedsores – also known as pressure sores, or decubitus ulcers – are extremely painful. They can lead to death. A bedsore is an injury to the skin and tissue caused by prolonged pressure on the skin. To people ...
As elder law attorneys we help seniors, dependent adults and their families when there has been serious injury or death or large losses of money. Over the years we have worked with hundreds of elders and family ...
Niall McCarthy and Eric Buescher recently published a chapter titled “Fighting Financial Elder Abuse in California” for the Thomson Reuters / Astapore Books publication, “Inside the Minds: Elder Law ...
Continuing Care Retirement Communities (“CCRCs”) are gaining in popularity as an option for senior retirement living. Many CCRCs offer gorgeous surroundings akin to a 5-star hotel. Often they tout ties ...
In a high-profile case with potentially national implications, a San Mateo County Superior Court judge sided in September with Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy client Surfrider Foundation and ordered Silicon ...
Even as recent federal rulings threaten to narrow the scope of anti-retaliation protections provided to individuals who report violations of America’s securities law, the Dodd-Frank Act’s ...
Criminals and fraudsters often target senior citizens and military veterans – residents who have given much, and who are sometimes among the most vulnerable members of a community. According to the Los ...
The California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) has reportedly observed a disturbing uptick in elder abuse centered on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (“VA”) Aid and Attendance benefit ...
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), signed into federal law by President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010, created a ground-breaking new agency: the Consumer ...
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy has been honored as America’s Elite Trial Lawyers by The National Law Journal. The list is composed of firms that pulled in huge victories in complex cases that have wide impact on ...
