On The Move (March 01, 2000)

Queensway Financial Holdings Limited has announced the appointment of H. Anthony Arrell and Patrick Hodgson to Queensway’s board of directors. Arrell is the chairman and chief executive officer of Burgundy Asset Management Limited. Hodgson is the president of Cinnamon Investments Ltd. and chairman of Todd Shipyards Corporation in Seattle, Washington.

The Allianz Group has announced the following executive and board appointments for its Canadian operation. David Maynard, former president and chief executive officer, has been elected chairman of the boards for Allianz Insurance Company and Trafalgar Insurance Company, replacing retiring chair David Horsley who remains on the board. Also, Christian Cassebaum, most recently vice president and executive director of Allianz in Munich, Germany, has been appointed president and chief executive officer and has been elected to the board.

Susan Meltzer, president of the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc., has announced that Linda Lamel will step down from her position as executive director of the Risk and Insurance Management Society. The RIMS executive council has begun a search for a successor, in the interim Mary Roth, deputy executive director, continues to manage the New York staff.

Vital Innovations Inc. has appointed Robert Gow to the position of vice president e-Business Solutions. Gow’s experience in insurance company claim management, as well as senior management within the independent adjusting field, will be critical in his role in the development of business to business e-commerce solutions.

MultiTech Communications, Inc. — a provider of foreign language translation services to insurance sectors worldwide — has announced a re-launch of its InsuranceTranslation.com website. In addition to expanding the information available on the MultiTech’s services, the recently relaunched site has enhanced its Glossary Agent and Language Perils sections by organizing them according to topic.

Glossary Agent is InsuranceTranslation.com’s expanding set of links to online glossaries in a variety of languages in insurance, reinsurance, healthcare, law, shipping and other disciplines of interest to insurance industry professionals. Language Perils, InsuranceTranslation.com’s e-letter, offers an interactive forum for insurance and related professionals worldwide to address issues of their markets through the prism of terminology. Recent contributors have discussed consequential losses in Germany, the problems of communicating U.S. healthcare terms to Russian emigres, segregated cells in captives, and proximate cause in Argentina. InsuranceTranslation.com welcomes contributions to Language Perils from industry professionals worldwide.