2nd Circuit Overturns Ex-Lawyer's Insurance Fraud Conviction (Law.com)
The 2nd Circuit has vacated disgraced attorney Solomon Kaplan's conviction on five counts related to an insurance fraud scheme because lay opinion by a cooperating witness was improperly allowed as to Kaplan's knowledge of a massive auto accident insurance scheme. But the judges let stand Kaplan's convictions on counts of witness tampering and making false statements to an FBI agent. The ruling ...

Farmers Insurance Promotes Bill Martin to Senior Vice President - Auto Product Management (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LOS ANGELES----Paul Hopkins, chief executive officer of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, has announced the appointment of Bill Martin to Senior Vice President - Auto Product Management in the Home Office.

comScore Reports 58 Percent Annual Growth in Auto Insurance Policies Purchased Online in 2006 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study of online auto insurance activity, which revealed that 2006 represented a tipping point in the adoption of the Internet for auto insurance purchases.