January 2005/2

But poverty and low insurance penetration rates limit industry impact Despite the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives and the destruction of wide swathes of property across 13 countries, the insurance industry appears to have emerged relatively unsc

Berkshire Hathaway confirmed last week that its reinsurance arm General Re has received a request from the Securities and Exchange Commission for information relating to its sale of “non-traditional or loss mitigation insurance products”.