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Berkshire Hathaway Sale of Applied Underwriters Said Due to ‘Channel Conflict’

In a rare move, Berkshire Hathaway is selling one of its companies, leading workers’ compensation specialist Applied Underwriters, in order to avoid conflict with its other workers’ compensation businesses. “Berkshire has a number of workers’ compensation companies, and there was …

Berkshire Hathaway Goes Small with biBERK Online Commercial Site

It has been decades since anyone thought of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., or even its insurance operations, as “very, very small.” But that’s how a senior executive describes biBERK, a unit that lets owners of small businesses shop online …