by Dennis Beaver | doctor, lawsuit, malpractice, medicine
September 11, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver My paralegal, Anne, buzzed me. “You have a couple on the phone who have Covid-19. They are very upset with their family doctor and want to talk with you about a possible lawsuit for malpractice.” Now, this sounded interesting....
by Dennis Beaver | consumer
January 21, 2012 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver A new law recently went into effect in California where a staggering 90 percent of people reading this article are not in compliance and could be fined up to $200. But the fine would be insignificant in terms...
by Dennis Beaver | traffic ticket
May 17, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver In today’s column, I want to share with you some of the experiences I’ve had when sitting as a pro tem judge in traffic court, here in Kern County over the past several years. If you’ve been...
by Dennis Beaver | property damage
May 5, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, I’ve been reading your articles in our paper here in Eureka, and have a question about trees and legal responsibility if someone on adjoining property is injured by one of my trees,”...
by Dennis Beaver | contracts, lawyers
June 11, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver “We are second year students at the San Joaquin College of Law in Fresno. Recently you wrote about a couple who hired ServPro to clean their father’s apartment in an elderly living facility, signed the work authorization but refused to...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney, lawsuit, Outside Counsel
December 10, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver “When we read about mayors, CEOs of major corporations and ministers of megachurches getting in conflict-of-interest financial or personal trouble, history has proven there is often a common denominator,” observes attorney Steven...
by Dennis Beaver | ethics, malpractice
September 20, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver This story will make you angry and leave you wondering about the common sense, ethics, and business judgment of a medical group known as “Advanced Women’s Health Center” located in Bakersfield....
by Dennis Beaver | malpractice
September 25, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Part 2 Last week we began a two-part look into what, in the opinion of this writer and the physicians, attorneys and regular people with whom I spoke, can only be described as an incredibly cold, heartless...
by Dennis Beaver | dui - drunk driving
July 27, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “During a week’s business trip in Southern California, I was reading the local newspaper. There was an article about a woman — driving drunk — who killed a pedestrian only two months after she...
by Dennis Beaver | family law
April 26, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver It was a beautiful spring morning in the California’s southern San Joaquin Valley, a Friday when Maria and her two friends were westbound on Highway 119, headed to their jobs in Taft. All three lived with their families and...