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Investment income from insurance units fell to $889 million from $1.03 billion during the same period in 2015.

The insurance businesses had a fourth-quarter underwriting gain of $306 million driven by improvements at General Re and BH Reinsurance.

Buffett will likely remind investors why insurance has been good for Berkshire over the past five decades when the company's annual report is released online Saturday.

Berkshire Hathaways first-quarter profit climbed 9.8% as lower fuel prices helped the railroad business, and investment income improved because of Buffetts wager on Burger King.

Warren Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said fourth-quarter profit rose 9.6% on gains at insurance units.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc, the conglomerate run by billionaire Warren Buffett, on Friday said its third-quarter profit rose as strength in the railroad and utility businesses, as well as investment gains, offset weaker results in the insurance units.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc, the conglomerate run by billionaire Warren Buffett, on Friday said its third-quarter profit rose as strength in the railroad and utility businesses, as well as investment gains, offset weaker results in the insurance units.

A Delaware judge dismissed a shareholder lawsuit alleging that billionaire Warren Buffett and directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. failed to take proper action in response to stock trades by a former Berkshire executive ahead of the company's $9 billion acquisition of chemical manufacturer Lubrizol.