All the headlines from our Berkshire Hathaway Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 10 2021 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has named Anthony Tatulli as head of Executive & Professional Lines for North America. He will have overall underwriting responsibility for Directors and Officers...
Mar 1 2021 // With GEICO’s 2020 underwriting profit more than doubling above the level recorded in 2019, Berkshire Hathaway’s full-year property/casualty underwriting income was in the black, even though the...
Feb 18 2021 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has expanded its U.S. Executive & Professional Lines leadership team, naming Shelley Norman as senior vice president, Management Liability, Central region, and promoting...
Feb 17 2021 // Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday announced two major new investments, revealing an $8.6 billion stake in the phone company Verizon Communications Inc. and a $4.1 billion stake in oil company...
Feb 8 2021 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced that Tomas Blas has been promoted to head of Property, Spain.Blas, who has 17 years of industry experience, joined BHSI in 2019 as head of Technical Lines in Spain....
Jan 28 2021 // In a dispute between two insurers, a federal appellate court ruled that GEICO is solely liable for the cost of replacing a Lamborghini worth more than $100,000 that was totaled in a collision with another vehicle.A panel...
Jan 14 2021 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has added Georgia and Utah to the list of states where the insurer offers its homeowners product. With these additions, the company now offers its personal lines products in 22...
Dec 18 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has added Georgia to the list of states where it company offers its Accountants Professional Liability policy. Georgia is now the sixth state that the insurer offers this...
Dec 16 2020 // QBE North America announced the appointment of four senior industry veterans to leadership positions within its Financial Lines business. Joining QBE are: Danielle Librizzi as head of Professional Liability Thomas Kocaj as...
Dec 16 2020 // Philip Massaro has joined small business intermediary BTIS as vice president of Underwriting.Massaro has 25 years of commercial insurance underwriting and product management experience. Most recently, he was with GEICO as...
Dec 8 2020 // The makers of Energizer and Duracell batteries have ended two lawsuits accusing each other of advertising false claims to consumers about battery life.According to filings on Friday in Manhattan federal court, Energizer...
Nov 24 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has named Lauren Finnis vice president, Customer & Broker Engagement, for the Central Region, based in Chicago. She was previously vice president of Customer & Broker...
Nov 19 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced a pair of promotions in its Executive & Professional Lines Claims group, naming Shelby Rootenberg as senior vice president, head of U.S. Commercial Lines (Public)...
Nov 18 2020 // Jaskaran Singh Gill, of Tukwila, Wash., was charged in King County Superior Court in Washington with two counts of first-degree theft, one count of second-degree theft and four counts of filing a false insurance claim...
Nov 12 2020 // QBE North America has appointed Dan Fortin as president and Todd Greeley as chief operating officer for Financial Lines.Both executives joined QBE NA from Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance. With the hires, QBE NA said...
Nov 2 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has expanded the list of states the company offers its architects and engineers professional liability product to include Colorado, Kansas, and Wisconsin. With these three...
Oct 28 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has hired Renee Yozzi to lead Customer & Broker Engagement for the Eastern U.S. Region.Yozzi brings nearly 20 years of experience to BHSI. She most recently held the title...
Oct 15 2020 // A unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. claims a top international law firm helped German piping component maker Wilhelm Schulz GmbH fraudulently conceal its disastrous finances before its 2017 acquisition...
Oct 1 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has added Illinois to the list of states where the insurer offers its Commercial Package Policy.The product includes commercial property featuring limits up to $120 million per...
Sep 24 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has further expanded its professional liability products including coverage for lawyers, architects and engineers, accountants, as well as nearly 100 other classes of...