Just the Stats on GEICO

-- Serves 9 million auto policyholders and growing
-- Insures more than 16 million vehicles
-- Third-largest private passenger auto insurer in the United States (based on 2008 market share data as reported by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, March 2009)
-- Fastest-growing major auto insurer in the U.S., with policies-in-force growth of 8.9 percent in 2008
-- Employs 24,000 associates
-- Maintains 12 major offices around the country

In 1996, GEICO became a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, headed by Warren Buffett, one of the country's most successful investors. For the past three years (2006, 2007, and 2008), Fortune magazine has named Berkshire's property-casualty insurance operation the most admired in the country.