by Dennis Beaver | auto insurance, auto repair, doctor, medicine
August 2, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver What should you say? What should you do? And, even more importantly, what should you not say or do if involved in a motor vehicle accident? “Chiropractors, MDs, physical therapists, attorneys, professionals who treat or are involved...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, communication, consumer, lawyers
December 3, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver “Law is adversarial. Many lawyers have type-A personalities, feeling they just have to win, and some feel they will increase their chances of success by being absolute jerks to opposing counsel. Nothing could be further from the...
by Dennis Beaver | business, communication, technology
January 19, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver An informative, accurate and accessible website has the power to enhance the credibility of a business or professional — or greatly detract from them. However, as Hanford-based website developer Katherine Andes points out, “Many...
by Dennis Beaver | auto repair, consumer, lemon law, safety
April 15, 2022 • By Dennis Beaver Please join me for a walk down memory lane, to 1965 and the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, the frightening book by lawyer and consumer advocate Ralph Nader about just how little auto manufacturers cared about safety. Nader’s...
by Dennis Beaver | employment, judges, workplace
June 9, 2017 • By Dennis Beaver If you’ve been denied unemployment insurance benefits because your employer claimed that you were guilty of “misconduct,” then today’s story will be of special interest, for that’s what happened to “Carmen,” the 32-year-old daughter of...
by Dennis Beaver | auto insurance, auto repair
June 28, 2019 • By Dennis Beaver What are your rights when the dealership that just sold you that new car suddenly loses its franchise and is no longer allowed to perform warranty service or repairs, leaving you forced to drive for hours just to get what you had a...
by Dennis Beaver | donation
December 01, 2012 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver In memory of dad, a family donates a baby grand piano worth $15,000 to their church and receive a charitable tax deduction. Fours years later, a power struggle develops and some members decide to form their...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer
June 14, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver First, get inside the minds of car dealers. In survey after survey, buying a new car is consistently viewed as a highly unpleasant experience, even with all the information available online. “What car buyers find so frustrating and...
by Dennis Beaver | divorce
February 11, 2010 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, I am a retired naval officer living near the Naval Weapons Station at Lemoore with my wife of 35 years. She is from Japan, and our son — who I will call Henry — got her great looks,”...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer, technology
September 03, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “I was pulled over on California State Route 33 in the Central Valley by a traffic officer using radar,” a Hanford reader’s email began. “While the posted speed limit there was 65,...
