Browse Through Some of My Work Online
My Kiplinger work can be found on my Kiplinger author page: https://www.kiplinger.com/authors/elaine-silvestrini
My Legal Examiner work can be found on my Legal Examiner author page: https://www.legalexaminer.com/author/silvestrini/
Long-Form Features
- The Annuity Puzzle: What Is it & Why Should You Care?
- Big Pharma and the Opioid Epidemic: Profiting From Pain
- When Prescriptions Do More Harm Than Good
Features
- Expensive Inmate Phone Calls a Tax On Poorest, Advocates Say
- Tale of 1980s spy ring broken in Tampa to be made into George Clooney movie
General Legal Coverage and Courts (More of this on pdf Page)
- Americans hurt by coronavirus treatments will have few options
- Court LGBTQ ruling leaves many battles still to be fought
- Under seige whistleblowers date back to our founding
- Owners of Tampa pain clinic convicted of drug trafficking
- Lawyers sending out text messages to try and get work
- Lawsuit: Mormon Church violates copyright
- Reggae star Buju Banton sentenced to 10 years in prison
- Parents offer reward in kidnapping
- Hillsborough Courts still struggle with access to online records
- Federal judge dismisses porn charge
- Florida lottery winner dies penniless
- Crockett document sparks battle
- Preemption explainer
Personal and Op-Eds
Business, Retirement and Consumer Finance
- Retirement: Planning for Your Financial Future
- Adult children threaten retirement security
- Congress grapples with meaningful retirement reform
- Older Americans lack retirement savings and face poverty
- Older Americans increasingly filing bankruptcy
- Four percent rule
- Retirement health care costs
- Social Security explainer
- Social Security COLA
- How to choose a financial advisor
- Fiduciary explainer
Prescription Drugs, Medical Devices and their Regulation
- Off-label drug use
- Medical device recalls highest since 2005
- 510k clearance
- What are the signs of a blood clot?
- Talcum powder verdicts of $4.69 billion for ovarian cancer called “dam breaking”
- Drug interactions
- FDA thrills Essure foes
- Jury awards $37m asbestos cased linked to baby powder
- Big pharma’s $6 billion tax deduction under fire