by Dennis Beaver | consumer, technology
November 19, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Last week, we told you about the disappointing experience readers had with active noise cancellation headphones – similar to widely advertised Bose products – purchased a day prior to their...
by Dennis Beaver | traffic ticket
May 4, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver “On our way to San Diego, we stopped for lunch upon reaching Long Beach,” began an email from Alex, who reads this column in his hometown newspaper, the Selma Enterprise, owned by The Sentinel. It would prove to be a very long,...
by Dennis Beaver | technology
July 01, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver The new cell phone law which went into effect on Tuesday led to an unbelievable number of e-mails and calls from worried parents as well as their teenage children, all asking the same basic question: How can we...
by Dennis Beaver | drug use, insurance, insurance claim
April 6, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver If you thought that only auto or property insurance companies were out to deny claims that should be paid, today’s story will be a wake-up call for anyone who has a life insurance policy. That’s right. Life insurance companies are no...
by Dennis Beaver | healthcare, insurance, power of attorney, senior care
October 24, 2023 • By Dennis Beaver Getting older isn’t for sissies, and the more prepared you are for cognitive decline and the issues that come with it, the better your life will be. Do you worry about a friend or family member who is getting on in years? Perhaps...
by Dennis Beaver | discrimination, employment
June 11, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver As the concept of age discrimination has become better known, complaints from older American workers — people over 40— have gradually increased. Since COVID-19, agencies that deal with age discrimination have seen a significant ramping...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, leadership
April 26, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver “I am CEO of an educational sales organization, and we need our telemarketing staff to go out into the field, make presentations and do lunch-and-learn new product seminars with potential customers. May I legally change their job...
by Dennis Beaver | fraud, technology
February 26, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Even after having written this column over 15 years, on occasion what has happened to one of my readers just makes me furious. That was the way I felt after reading an e-mail from Carol, age 69, living in...
by Dennis Beaver | lawyers, parenting, workplace
March 12, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver Anne buzzed me: “A 13 year-old reader is calling from Chicago. He is worried about his father who is an attorney.” Seconds later I was speaking with “Timmy.” “Mr. Beaver, my father, Hal, is a lawyer and is so sad all the time. He...
by Dennis Beaver | ADA, lawsuit, settlement
February 22, 2019 • By Dennis Beaver If you are a landlord–or plan to buy rental property–our story should scare you more than just a little, as the last thing you want is to be sued for a violation of the Americans With Disability Act which no doubt you’ve heard of....
