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Article: REINSURERS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS AT BADEN-BADEN.
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- Business Insurance
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- November 8, 1999
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BADEN-BADEN, Germany-Baden-Baden remains an important meeting for the reinsurance industry even though fewer contracts are signed there now than in the past.
As it is closer to Jan. 1 renewals than Monte Carlo's Rendez-Vous de Septembre and with a heavy presence of North Europeans, discussions usually are more intense in the Black Forest resort town than in the south of France, noted executives who gathered here Oct. 25-29.
For one week each year, the wealthy German resort town-with its fashionable spas, expensive hotels, shops and restaurants and famous casino-resembles the London market, with dark-suited reinsurance executives marching up and down ...