{"id":4443,"date":"2026-05-03T16:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/berkshire-hathaway-units-score-win-in-535m-asbestos-talc-bankruptcy-ruling\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:08:16","slug":"berkshire-hathaway-units-score-win-in-535m-asbestos-talc-bankruptcy-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/berkshire-hathaway-units-score-win-in-535m-asbestos-talc-bankruptcy-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire Hathaway units score win in $535M asbestos-talc bankruptcy ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p paraeid=\"{f6a016f6-e790-4067-a9d8-ecc8d7729037}{130}\" paraid=\"371281743\">The case matters to the insurance industry because of who is standing behind the debtors. National Indemnity Company, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary,\u00a0acquired\u00a0the debtors&#8217; parent\u00a0companies\u00a0years after the 2004 asset sale, later assigning its acquisition rights to fellow Berkshire affiliate Ringwalt &amp;\u00a0Liesche\u00a0Co., which\u00a0remains\u00a0the debtors&#8217; ultimate parent. Through a chain of indemnity agreements, National Indemnity currently backstops certain asbestos-related successor liability claims against Brenntag. A group of Berkshire-affiliated entities including National Indemnity, National Liability &amp; Fire Insurance Company, Columbia Insurance Company, and Resolute Management, Inc., among others, appeared in the appeal as intervenor-appellees.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case matters to the insurance industry because of who is standing behind the debtors. National Indemnity Company, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary,\u00a0acquired\u00a0the debtors&#8217; parent\u00a0companies\u00a0years after the 2004 asset sale, later assigning its acquisition rights to fellow Berkshire affiliate Ringwalt &amp;\u00a0Liesche\u00a0Co., which\u00a0remains\u00a0the debtors&#8217; ultimate parent. Through a chain of indemnity agreements, National Indemnity currently backstops certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3253,3254,1666,1348,1349,1694,2492,3252,1555],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-535m","tag-asbestostalc","tag-bankruptcy","tag-berkshire","tag-hathaway","tag-ruling","tag-score","tag-units","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}