All the headlines from our Berkshire Hathaway Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 16 2015 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) today announced another key addition to its leadership team in Asia, naming Min Ong as Asia regional head of energy, based in Singapore.Malin Fredriksson, Asia regional head of...
Mar 4 2015 // Carrier Management Special ReportWarren Buffett’s insurance beginnings and predictions; breaking out the insurance and reinsurance results; the growth and expectations for Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance;...
Mar 1 2015 // Warren Buffett’s annual reports to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders have their own Kremlinology. Investors hunt for any hint about who will succeed the 84-year- old chief executive officer, much as students of...
Feb 26 2015 // A Florida court has ruled that one of the state’s largest automobile insurers must pay over $100,000 in attorney fees under the “additional payments” provision of its liability coverage.The Florida Fifth...
Feb 23 2015 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced two appointments to its leadership and underwriting team in Asia, naming Malin Fredriksson as Asia regional head of first party lines, and Kiran Prakash as Asia...
Feb 18 2015 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies recently hired Connie Bedaw as senior field representative to address targeted growth in New England. She will be affiliated with Berkshire Hathaway GUARD’s office in...
Feb 13 2015 // GEICO has opened a new local office in North Miami that will be headed by Gilbert Suarez and a team of five licensed agents at the location.Suarez and his staff, made up of agents Diana Suarez, Armando Amador, Milena Arza,...
Feb 12 2015 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced that it has appointed Amanda Sorsak to lead its Property & Energy Claims operation in Canada. She was previously Executive General Adjuster at Allianz Global...
Feb 5 2015 // Giant auto insurer Geico plans to roll out its new ridesharing insurance policy across the country, according to the company’s CEO.“We want to insure Uber drivers,” Geico CEO Tony Nicely told Liz Clamanin...
Feb 4 2015 // GEICO has rolled out a new product to meet the insurance coverage needs of ridesharing drivers in Virginia. The product, available now to new and existing customers, covers drivers that Uber (UberX and UberXL), Lyft,...
Feb 4 2015 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance has named Akshay Gupta senior vice president and head of catastrophe engineering and analytics.Gupta is based in the San Francisco Bay area. Gupta has more than 20 years of experience...
Jan 12 2015 // Private auto insurance industry direct premiums written rose 5.13 percent in the third quarter of 2014, the largest third-quarter year-over-year growth in the past 10 years, according to an analysis by SNL Financial.The 30...
Jan 11 2015 // BNSF Railway Co., the railroad owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is reconsidering a plan to buy 5,000 oil-tank cars built to new safety standards after some customers voiced concern about the...
Jan 7 2015 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) is expanding its U.S. casualty underwriting capabilities to include pollution exposures and has named Chuck Hasselback to head its environmental group.According to Meredith...
Jan 5 2015 // Warren Buffett said last year that Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s future will be about buying big businesses and expanding them over time. As he celebrates his golden anniversary running the company, investors are...
Jan 5 2015 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced that it has received an insurance license to carry on all classes of General Business in and from Hong Kong and has consequently filled several key positions in its...
Dec 19 2014 // Private auto insurance industry direct premiums written rose 5.13 percent in the third quarter of 2014, the largest third-quarter year-over-year growth in the past 10 years, according to an analysis by SNL Financial.The 30...
Dec 8 2014 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced that it has received its non-life insurance license in Singapore, and named Marc Breuil as regional president, Marcus Portbury as head of third party lines, and Peter...
Nov 19 2014 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has unveiled its Executive First Side A Difference-in-Conditions (DIC) Directors & Officers Liability Policy, which provides protection for individual directors and...
Nov 13 2014 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has created a Contractor’s Broad Form Coverage, which is now available to contractors with BHSI’s primary general liability practice policies. In addition, BHSI is...