The Answer Lies Within
Will Files Closed Ever Outpace the Rate of Applications at the LAT? The LAT has released their fiscal year end stats giving us a fulsome view of the LAT’s performance over the past 4 years of adjudicating AB disputes. In comparing 2019/2020 year over year production,...
read moreJustice Delayed…
Justice Delayed... In the first 6 months of 2019 alone, the total number of reconsiderations has increased by 65% with the LAT releasing 65 decisions. The story has been unfolding on whether the LAT was in a position to deliver on their stated mandate, with this spike...
read moreStem the Tide – Updated LAT Statistics December 2018
Has the LAT reached its tipping point? By year end 2017, we were asking if the LAT was being "overtaken by events" with steady growth in LAT applications outpacing closure activity, resulting in an active caseload of 3,601. Now 9 months later, the trend continues with...
read moreOvertaken By Events – LAT AABS Statistics April 2016 – December 2017
As is the case in any growing proposition, keeping an eye on the business activity and being nimble becomes the modus operandi. This is true of SLASTO’s rapidly expanding AABS service. With its promised goal of expediency and procedural fairness, is the LAT being...
read moreLAT Year 2 – Have We Settled In?
At the close of 2016, the LAT had released a total of 45 decisions, and by the end of 2017 that number grew to 413, demonstrating the expediency of the LAT and the rate at which information is becoming available. 84 decisions have already been released to date in...
read moreShould you be looking for something more than free?
I often get asked why inHEALTH has gone to the trouble of building the LAT Compendium, especially when the LAT decisions are available for free. In response I ask, how much time does it take to research and find the most relevant and meaningful...
read more2017 – A Year in Review at the LAT
As we round up 2017, there have been a total of 300 decisions released. The graph above reflects an empirically collected analysis of for/against outcomes of all decisions released by the LAT. 60% of the decisions were in favour of insurer, while 37% of the decisions...
read moreBest seats in the house – Unique LATitudes
When I settled into my new role at inHEALTH as Manager of LAT Compendium Services in May, there were a total of 106 decisions published by the LAT. I figured, how bad could it be? Within two months, the number of published decisions had nearly doubled to 192 – my...
read moreThe LAT: One Year Older, Any The Wiser?
"The Licence Appeal Tribunal has been hearing disputed Ontario accident benefits claims for more than a year. Although disputes seem to be resolved more quickly than they were by the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, it remains to be seen whether or not...
read moreOrchestrating A Path To Change
The urgent need to reform an unsustainable tort system in the late 1980s led to a succession of no-fault legislation and regulatory reforms that introduced a tort threshold and deductibles. Almost 30 years later, we once again face an unsustainable tort system—and...
read moreFundamentals of AB/BI Training a Good Investment
Learning and development for jobs that require experienced-based specialization can be tricky to navigate. This is especially a priority for the Property and Casualty (P & C) industry.
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