Testing times
Eric Alexander previews the Baden-Baden meeting to be held on 25 and 26 October, at which the impact of typhoons and hurricanes on reinsurance costs and renewals will be one of the burning issues
This September's hurricanes shattered whatever expectations there might have been earlier in the year for reductions in the cost of reinsurance programmes for 2005. Just how much the losses have
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