Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company, which owns subsidiaries in insurance, rail roads, utilities, manufacturing services, retail and home building. The most important of these are insurance businesses conducted on both a primary basis and insurance basis, a freight rail transportation business and a group of utility and energy generation and distribution businesses. It has four major operating sectors - The Insurance group (includes GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company writes private passenger automobile insurance); General Re (conducts reinsurance business, offering property and casualty, life and health coverage to clients worldwide); Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group (underwrites excess-of-loss reinsurance and quota-share coverage for insurers and reinsurers globally); Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group (comprises a wide variety of independently-managed insurance businesses that principally write liability coverage for commercial accounts)....
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