by Dennis Beaver | investment, retirement
November 29, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Part 2 Last week I told you about what happened to Hal and his wife, both 67, retired, and long time readers. From more than a million dollars in their 401K account as of January, 2006, their investments...
by Dennis Beaver | investment, retirement
November 22, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Part 1 If your stockbroker sold you improper, excessively risky investments, or-failed to disclose the riskiness of what appeared as an otherwise conservative investment, and as a result you lost your shirt...
by Dennis Beaver | debt collection, lawyers
November 15, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, would you please explain when I should expect to be paid — and who owes me — for my work as an expert witness for a law firm,” began Joel’s e-mail. “I am an ASE Certified...
by Dennis Beaver | bank, investment
November 08, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “We wanted to get into our own business, but none of the bankers we spoke with would loan us the money. Then we saw an ad in USA Today that seemed to be an answer to our prayers,” a...
by Dennis Beaver | law enforcement, theft
November 01, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver On Saturday, Sept. 13, at around 10 in the morning, June was purchasing gasoline at a Brookside Market service station close to her home in Bakersfield. Walking back into the store for change, she found a...
by Dennis Beaver | complaint, consumer
October 21, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver When Cynthia Dias and her fiance, Troy Nunnelee, went out shopping for a new stove in late June, they had no idea that within a matter of weeks the promises made to America by one of its oldest and most...
by Dennis Beaver | donation, medicine
October 18, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “I practice medicine near a small farming town in northern California. People think of me as something of an old-fashioned doctor. With patients who have no health insurance and not much money, I...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
October 11, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Nick trusted his lawyer, believing advice which sucked him into a completely preventable lawsuit. The 45-year-old auto mechanic never obtained a second opinion-about the case or his lawyer’s reputation...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
October 04, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Part 1 There are two buildings in most towns that we generally want to stay as far away from as possible; the hospital and courthouse. Neither are happy places and both can be incredibly expensive. For anyone...
by Dennis Beaver | warranty
September 26, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, I have two questions about umbrellas that could seem a little bit silly,” began an interesting e-mail from Adam, a reader who lives in Fortuna, California. His inquiry is the...
