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United Kingdom · Western Europe

General Reinsurance AG

Profile highlights

10 badges
  • Group spans 4 directory continents

    Berkshire Hathaway: 17 markets across 4 directory continents (Asia-Pacific is one directory region). Group membership does not establish this entity’s policy availability.

  • Part of a group

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  • Group listed in 15+ markets

    Berkshire Hathaway: 17 markets across 4 directory continents (Asia-Pacific is one directory region). Group membership does not establish this entity’s policy availability.

  • Reinsurer

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  • Foreign multinational

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  • Group spans 10+ directory regions

    Berkshire Hathaway: 17 markets across 4 directory continents (Asia-Pacific is one directory region). Group membership does not establish this entity’s policy availability.

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  • Internationally active insurance group

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  • Part of a listed group

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  • Register identifier recorded

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  • Listed in Europe

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Badge criteria
RReinsurerForeign multinationalIAIGGroup listedNYSE: BRK.BGroup listedNYSE: BRK.AVerified against the regulator register

Third-country branch in the UK; activities: Accident, Assistance, Damage to property, Fire and natural forces, General liability, Goods in transit, Land Vehicles, Legal expenses, Liability for ships, Life and annuity, Miscellaneous financial loss, Motor vehicle liability, Permanent health, Railway rolling stock, Ships, Sickness, Suretyship

Official sources

PRA regulator profile

This directory holds no official website for General Reinsurance AG: the PRA register does not publish one and no sourced profile has been accepted. The register is the authoritative record of who is licensed.

Popularity index

Since 1 Sept 2026

93out of 100

Rank in United Kingdom
132 of 448 insurers
Likely range
90–95
Confidence
Low

An estimate of how often people search Google for this insurer, from the searches in which this page appears — with automated searches removed and each day adjusted for where the page ranked. Not a rating of the insurer. How the index works

At a glance

Berkshire Hathaway listed on
New York Stock ExchangeBRK.BNew York Stock ExchangeBRK.A
Class of business
ReinsurerCarriers that accept risk ceded by primary insurers.
Parent / group
Berkshire HathawayLicensed in 17 countries, 25 entities in this directory.Ultimate parent Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. is an Internationally Active Insurance Group (IAIS register), supervised group-wide by Nebraska Department of Insurance, United States.
Ownership
Foreign multinationalSubsidiary of a multinational headquartered outside the continent.
Regulator
Prudential Regulation Authority (Bank of England) / FCA (PRA)bankofengland.co.uk
Local currency
GBP
Register identifiers
National ID 480042
Basis
Class: Derived from PRA permitted activitiesGroup: Compiled
Source basis
PRA List of PRA-regulated Insurers as at 1 Aug 2026
Country verification
Verified - full PRA register · PRA List of PRA-regulated Insurers as at 1 Sep 2026 (insurers-list-2609.csv, retrieved 8 Sep 2026), 502 authorisations: 448 filed here and the 54-firm Gibraltar section filed under Gibraltar
Identifiers
slug united-kingdom-general-reinsurance-ag · row 1775/api/v1/insurers/united-kingdom-general-reinsurance-ag.json