Berkshire Insurer Is Off the Hook for Asbestos Exposure Coverage

A Berkshire Hathaway Inc. insurance unit won a bid to avoid coverage for asbestos-related claims against a shipyard and a supplier.

Huntington Ingalls Inc., formerly known as Avondale Shipyards Inc., couldn’t prove that its former employee was exposed to asbestos from insuree Eagle Inc. and that it happened during two Berkshire policy periods between August 1974 and August 1977, according to a Thursday opinion in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

“General evidence that Eagle products were used at Avondale,” even on the vessels on which the employee worked, “is not enough by itself to trigger ...