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...
by Dennis Beaver | background checks, dating, employment
June 1, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver Are you just about to click “submit” on an Internet-based “Background Search” website, checking out a possible new employee or maybe the love of your life? We have all seen online ads, which for $20, in just a few hours time, claim to:...
by Dennis Beaver | background checks, dating, online dating
February 20, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver Today’s story will be of special interest to anyone who is or who knows someone in a dating relationship which began online and led to personally meeting. We begin with “Three of the most important questions which must be credibly...
by Dennis Beaver | homeowner's insurance, insurance
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...