by Dennis Beaver | contractor, contracts, property damage
May 29, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver “Danny” purchased an older home from a couple who fell in love with the game of shuffleboard from the many cruises they took over the years. In fact, they were so enthusiastic about shuffleboard that they had a court built in their...
by Dennis Beaver | bankruptcy, education
May 22, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver When Uniondale, N.Y. based Natalie Jean-Baptiste graduated from law school with a six-figure student loan debt, it never occurred to her that she wouldn’t be able to pay it back. “I just knew I was going to be a hot shot entertainment...
by Dennis Beaver | medicine, tax resolution, tax scam
May 15, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, I suffer from a bad case of procrastination in filing and paying my income taxes. I have not filed for over two years out of pure laziness. Recently, I heard a radio ad for a tax resolution company that talked about the...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment
May 8, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver Note: This article was written before the country went into shut down. While employment in the United States is at an historic high–with unemployment at one of the lowest levels ever seen–“Still something is wrong at work, there is a...
by Dennis Beaver | employment, government
May 1, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver In late March, my column titled, “Covid 19 — What Lawyers are Saying” featured two Bakersfield Employment Law attorneys, Dan Klingenberger and Jay Rosenlieb, who answered a number of questions about employee rights and obligations in...
by Dennis Beaver | lawyers, medicine, timeshare
April 24, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver Over the past several weeks I have heard from several readers who have discovered that their parents purchased a timeshare and are now ill with the coronavirus. Some have died. “What happens to their timeshare?” is the question. “As...
by Dennis Beaver | education, lawyers
April 17, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver In March of this year, many colleges and universities all across America began switching to distance teaching with Skype, Zoom or other web-based, video-conferencing technologies. For some classes — depending upon a student’s major —...
by Dennis Beaver | business, medicine
April 10, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver “The coronavirus is reshaping our world, and much of what we see today is very, very bad — from major health concerns to millions of people suddenly finding themselves out of work. To some degree, we are all finding it necessary to...
by Dennis Beaver | business, insurance, insurance claim, medicine
April 3, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver When disaster strikes, we first worry about health and safety. Then concerns of financial loss and damage come to mind. Many commercial insurance policies contain clauses that protect a business in the event of a disaster–including...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, government, lawyers, medicine
March 27, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver The Coronavirus has become a sneak attack in slow motion on the American workforce. Fear has become the operative word, not only of falling ill, but the impact this virus is having on our economy, on jobs. Employment law attorneys are...
