by Dennis Beaver | insurance claim, risk management
March 26, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Just how dimly lit should a restaurant be? Can it be so dark that it’s dangerous, and if someone is injured because of the low light level, the owners would be liable?” Visalia reader David...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer
March 19, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Last week we began our analysis of structured settlements, which is a way in which large personal injury verdicts or out-of-court settlements are often set up. A portion – sometimes all of the money...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer
March 12, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver In 2008 – around the time our economy went into a tailspin – anyone watching TV, surfing the Net, or listening to radio online or over the air began to hear the words “structured...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer, technology
March 05, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “We are two U.S. Navy officers at the Naval Weapons Station in Lemoore. We have both been fortunate indeed in being married to the most wonderful women in the world – who are from Japan,”...
by Dennis Beaver | senior care
February 26, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver It’s the final diagnosis: “There is nothing more which can be done. Get your affairs in order. Is there someone who you can call, who you can count on, who you trust?” To Ron Dicken and...
by Dennis Beaver | investment, lawyers
February 19, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “We are an old Portuguese farming family in the Hanford, California area, and I have done everything your column on Stockbrokers said that I shouldn’t have,” the e-mail from...
by Dennis Beaver | lawyers, medicine
February 12, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Last week we told you about “Dotti,” the 20-year-old woman who had breast augmentation surgery performed by a “dangerously incompetent surgeon,” according to board-certified plastic...
by Dennis Beaver | lawyers, medicine
February 05, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver We will just call her Dotti. The name of her so-called “breast implant surgeon” isn’t Dr. Frankenstein, but it should be. “This incompetent GP has made millions of dollars from breast...
by Dennis Beaver | workplace
January 29, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Looking for a new hair blower? Any Target, RiteAid, Walmart or beauty supply store will have dozens, promising to make the user look like a Vogue or GQ model. The boxes state wattage, describe ceramic or...
by Dennis Beaver | workplace
January 22, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Our wives work as hair stylists in a relatively small town in California’s Central Valley. We are all very close, went to the same high school, got married right after graduation, the girls...
