All the headlines from our Berkshire Hathaway Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 31 2011 // The man widely seen as the leading successor to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway has resigned after buying shares in chemical company Lubrizol Corp. before pushing Buffett to acquire it.David Sokol’s resignation...
Mar 21 2011 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has stated that the ratings on “Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK; AA+/Stable/A-1+) and its insurance subsidiaries are unaffected by BRK’s announcement that it has agreed...
Mar 21 2011 // Giant Berkshire Hathaway, which makes much of its money on insurance and investing insurance premiums, does not provide liability insurance for its own directors.Warren Buffett, the 80-year-old chairman of Berkshire...
Mar 21 2011 // Giant Berkshire Hathaway, which makes much of its money on insurance and investing insurance premiums, does not provide liability insurance for its own directors.Warren Buffett, the 80-year-old chairman of Berkshire...
Mar 21 2011 // Giant Berkshire Hathaway, which makes much of its money on insurance and investing insurance premiums, does not provide liability insurance for its own directors.Warren Buffett, the 80-year-old chairman of Berkshire...
Mar 21 2011 // After years of maintaining that the duty to defend and the duty to indemnify were independent duties in a liability policy, the Texas Supreme Court held in 1997 that the same allegations used to determine that no duty to...
Mar 7 2011 // Lawson-Hawks, Christopher Lee Insurance ServicesLawson-Hawks Insurance Associates Inc., a regional independent insurance broker based in Mountain View, Calif., acquired Christopher Lee Insurance Services of Carmel, Calif....
Mar 4 2011 // Billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is entering the Indian insurance market as a corporate agent for Bajaj Allianz, the companies said.Berkshire made no investment in Bajaj, but will sell policies for...
Feb 28 2011 // Giant Berkshire Hathaway, which makes much of its money on insurance and investing insurance premiums, does not provide liability insurance for its own directors.Warren Buffett, the 80-year-old chairman of Berkshire...
Feb 7 2011 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Pasadena, Calif.-based Wesco Financial Corp. have entered into a definitive merger agreement, whereby Berkshire Hathaway will acquire the remaining 19.9 percent of the shares of Wesco’s...
Feb 7 2011 // Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will buy the 19.9 percent it does not own of Wesco Financial Corp., in a deal worth about $547.6 million, the companies said Monday.In September, Buffett submitted a takeover...
Feb 3 2011 // The Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies (BHHC) now has the ability to provide workers’ compensation coverage to their clients in every state that allows private insurers to compete for business. Currently, BHHC...
Dec 17 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of ‘B+’ (Good) and issuer credit rating of “bbb-” to Michigan-based PrimeOne Insurance Company, both with stable outlooks. The ratings of...
Oct 27 2010 // Canadian insurer Sun Life Financial Inc. said Wednesday it would sell its reinsurance business to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway after months of looking for a buyer for the profitable unit.Sun Life did not...
Oct 26 2010 // Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Monday said hedge fund manager Todd Combs would join the firm, potentially bringing the company a step closer to solving Buffett’s succession puzzle.Berkshire Hathaway owns...
Aug 10 2010 // GEICO recently named Carl Tims, CPCU, of Lakeland, Fla., assistant vice president in charge of claims for the Southeast regional operations office in Macon, Ga.Tims began his career with GEICO in 1992 as a service...
Aug 9 2010 // Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Friday second-quarter profit fell 40 percent, as declining stock prices depressed the value of his derivative contracts.Operating profit nevertheless soared 73 percent,...
Jun 14 2010 // Insurer Geico has filed a $1.8 million lawsuit alleging a Queens radiology center orchestrated a no-fault auto insurance fraud scheme that involved thousands of suspect claims for service.Geico did not identify the 10...
May 10 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has issued three separate bulletins announcing that it has removed a number of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance companies from the “under review with negative implications” status it announced...
May 10 2010 // Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Friday reported its largest quarterly profit since 2007, helped by an improving economy, investment and derivative gains, and the takeover of Burlington Northern Santa Fe...