Thomas Gold Pettingill LLP is pleased to provide this online resource to our clients. Below is a searchable database of the publicly released decisions from the Licence Appeal Tribunal. Assembled by the accident benefits group, the decisions are reviewed, briefly summarized, and categorized for easy access.
As of March 2020, we will not include any further decisions focused solely on the Minor Injury Guideline or treatment plans, unless the case may have broader applicability.
The claimant sought entitlement to NEBs, and seven medical benefits for various treatment and assessments. Adjudicator Watt dismissed all of the claims, holding that the claimant failed to prove entitlement. With regard to the NEB claim, Adjudicator Watt also noted that the claimant was employed at the time of the accident, and that he did...
The claimant disputed entitlement to NEBs. The claimant outlined the activities that were important to him before the accident, such as caregiving and spending time with his grandchildren, fishing, hunting with his father and camping. The claimant had a number of pre-existing health issues, but was still able to participate in these activities. As a...
The claimant sought entitlement to three treatment plans for chiropractic services, one treatment plan for psychological services, and a catastrophic impairment assessment. Adjudicator Grieves noted that given the time elapsed before the claimant reported any accident-related complaints, and that there were only three entries relating to the accident despite seeing her family physician very frequently,...
The claimant was involved in a serios motorcycle accident and was determined to be catastrophically impaired by the insurer. The claimant submitted a treatment plan for a home modification assessment by Adapt-Able Design in the amount of $9,217.40. The insurer partially approved the assessment in the amount of $2,200. The claimant applied to the LAT...
The claimant applied to the LAT disputing entitlement to NEBs, physiotherapy services, a chronic pain assessment and MIG determination and a special award. The insurer a preliminary issue that the claimant was barred from litigating his entitlement to NEBs for failure to attend an IE to address the benefit. Belair also sought costs. Adjudicator Chakravarti...
This is a reconsideration decision. The hearing decision found that the claimant sustained minor injuries and was subject to the MIG. The claimant requested reconsideration of the hearing decision based on new evidence that was not before the Tribunal at the time of the written hearing and which, he submitted, would likely have affected the...
The claimant applied to the LAT disputing entitlement to a treatment and assessment plan for chiropractic treatment. The insurer denied the plan and requested the claimant attend an IE, noting the plan had been submitted four years post-accident and no additional medical documentation had been provided. The claimant attended the IE, but refused to sign...
A preliminary issue hearing was held to determine whether the claimant was barred from appealing a denial of benefits claimed for MIG determination, IRBs, ACBs, housekeeping, medical benefit expense claims, a CAT determination and a special award. Vice-Chair Boyce held the claimant was statue-barred from appealing the denials due to the claimant's failure to dispute...
The claimant applied to the LAT seeking entitlement to a treatment plan for physiotherapy and sought a special award. Adjudicator Boyce found the claimant was entitled to the treatment plan, plus interest, and given a special award in the amount of $250.00. Adjudicator Boyce found that the insurer's denial letter did not comply with section...
The claimant sought entitlement to IRBs from June 25, 2018 to March 2, 2019. Vice Chair Mather first heard a preliminary issue with respect to the Tribunal's font and spacing specifications. Vice Chair Mather stated that it is open to a party to request an increase in page limits if they do not feel that...
The claimant sought entitlement to IRBs in the amount of $885.21 per week, in excess of the statutory maximum of $400.00 per week as set out in the SABS. The insurer initially paid IRBs at the statutory maximum of $400.00 per week, and subsequently reduced payments to $16.00 per week based on the appropriate ""ramp...
The claimant disputed her entitlement to two treatment plans for vision-related services. The insurer denied the treatment plans on the basis that the claimant's vision impairments were not caused by the accident, as the claimant had pre-existing issues with her vision and the neuro-optometry IE assessor found that the claimant's visual impairments were natural history...
The claimant sought reconsideration of the Tribunal's decision dismissing entitlement to medical benefits. Adjudicator McGee noted that the claimant filed her reconsideration submissions nearly a month after the deadline for submissions. Vice Chair McGee did not make any findings on procedural issues for the late findings, as she dismissed the reconsideration application on its merits....
The claimant disputed a catastrophic impairment designation. The insurer argued that the claimant failed to attend IEs, and that he was barred from proceeding with the LAT dispute. Adjudicator Lake dismissed the preliminary issue, holding that the insurer failed to prove the claimant failed to attend IEs. According to the documentary record, the claimant did...
The claimant sought reconsideration of the Tribunal's decision that he did not suffer a catastrophic impairment as a result of the accident. In particular, he challenged the Tribunal's conclusion regarding a 40 percent WPI for cauda equina-like syndrome, and argued that it should have applied. He argued that the Tribunal did not allow procedural fairness...
The claimant filed a request for reconsideration of Adjudicator Norris' decision that found the claimant was entitled to a physiotherapy treatment plan but not entitled to a chiropractic treatment plan, nor a second physiotherapy treatment plan. The claimant submitted that Adjudicator Norris made a significant error of law and that he misinterpreted section 38(11). Adjudicator...
The preliminary issue at this hearing was whether the claimant was involved in an "accident" as defined within s. 3(1) of the SABS. The claimant submitted that she was involved in an accident because she was stepping out of her automobile when she slipped on ice and suffered injuries. The claimant's body did not strike...
This is a reconsideration decision of Adjudicator Shapiro. The insurer requested reconsideration of Adjudicator Shapiro's initial decision wherein he found the claimant entitled to retroactive ACBs with interest. The facts of this case were unusual. The claimant was a pedestrian struck by a vehicle. She did not have her own insurance. The driver of the...
The insurer sought reconsideration of the Tribunal's decision to award two treatment plans. The main argument for reconsideration was that the Tribunal considered an affidavit from the claimant that the insurer did not have an opportunity to cross-examine the claimant on. Adjudicator Paluch granted the reconsideration, holding that the Tribunal violated the rules of procedural...
The claimant disputed her entitlement to NEBs, three medical benefits for treatment, and an attendant care assessment. Adjudicator Grant dismissed all of the claims. He found that the claimant was not prevented from engaging in substantially all of the activities in which she ordinarily had prior to the accident. The claimant had not provided a...
The claimant requested reconsideration of a preliminary issues decision in which the LAT adjudicator found that the claimant was barred from proceeding with her application for certain benefits because she failed to commence her application within two years of the insurer's refusal to pay the benefits claimed. The claimant submitted that the LAT acted outside...