OF TREES AND NUTTY NEIGHBORS

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,”...

On the hook without a contract

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...

One for the road = murder

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...

One good reason to get married

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...

Only pay for what you need

September 25, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver Thomas, a reader in Chicago, wrote: “Liberty Mutual Insurance television commercials which state, ‘Only Pay for What You Need’ appear to suggest that other insurance companies will sell you coverages you don’t need. I’ll bet a lot...