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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) |
May 15, 2012
Former American International Group Inc Chief Executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg said New York's attorney general should be barred from invoking a 91-year-old state law in a fraud case over two suspect reinsurance transactions.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 7, 2012
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway more than doubled first-quarter net income as its insurance businesses turned in a net-underwriting profit of $54 million compared to a loss of $821 million a year ago.
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By Catherine Bosley, Reuters |
May 4, 2012
Swiss Re sounded an upbeat note for 2012 and said reinsurance prices could rise further after it posted a forecast-beating profit for the first quarter thanks in part to the absence of large natural catastrophes.
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By Ben Berkowitz, Reuters |
April 18, 2012
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. CEO Warren Buffett said he has stage 1 prostate cancer but his condition "is not remotely life-threatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way."
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By Denise Tessier |
March 29, 2012
Without succinct claims-handling policies and procedures, companies are at risk for significant losses.
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By Randall Chase, Associated Press |
March 20, 2012
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.
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By Josh Funk, AP Business Writer |
March 14, 2012
A group of Berkshire Hathaway investors from the AFL-CIO wants to require the company to reveal Warren Buffett's successor.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 1, 2012
Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance group reported a 30.5 percent drop in pre-tax earnings in 2011, driven mainly by $2.6 billion in pre-tax losses from catastrophe events.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
February 27, 2012
Read what Warren Buffett, chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, has to say about his successor, his company’s insurance operations, the economy, and a newspaper-throwing challenge.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
February 27, 2012
Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance group reported a 30.5 percent drop in pre-tax earnings in 2011, driven mainly by $2.6 billion in pre-tax losses from catastrophe events.
