This blog post will compare Ontario automobile insurer market shares against the amount of Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) Applications and LAT Decisions. In other words, how are the biggest insurers behaving on automobile insurance claims from their own insureds? Which insurers are denying the most claims? And, which insurers play hardball with their insureds all the way up to a LAT hearing and decision?
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Z.K. v. Allstate Insurance Company Canada, 2020 CanLII 106429 (ON LAT)
In this case that went before the Licence Appeal Tribunal (“LAT”) following a seven-day hearing held in-person over the months of October and December 2019, the LAT determined that the Applicant had sustained a Catastrophic Impairment as a result of his motor vehicle accident of June 6, 2014…
A Look Into How an Adjudicator is Trained at the LAT
Guest Author: Laura Dickson, Lamont Law In 2018, the independence of the adjudicators and decision-making process was called into question by the Divisional Court. The Divisional Court in Shuttleworth found that, although some outside influence on reason writing was considered permissible, the Court held that there ought to be an institutional consultation procedure in place to safeguard the independence of the decision-maker. The Ontario Court …
Updated LAT Statistics
OTLA continues to make strategic Freedom of Information requests to the government. As part of these requests, we recently received updated Licence Appeal Tribunal statistics.
10 Things We Learned at The September LAT Stakeholder Meeting
OTLA staff and members attended the Licence Appeal Tribunal Stakeholder Consultation Meeting on behalf of OTLA. At the meeting, the LAT provided us with an update on their operations and different stakeholders (OTLA, the IBC, The Advocates Society and the OBA) each presented concerns and potential solutions to help the LAT.
NM v The Guarantee Company of North America
This reconsideration decision helps shed some more light on the level of behaviour that will attract costs at the Licence Appeal Tribunal (“LAT”).