- Before
- Carries 46 open arbitration matters and about 15 new filings a week, each contention built from the claim file by hand. “The arbitrator only reads what I attach. One missing invoice and I lose the rental.”
- Now
- Opens a contention already drafted and cited, fixes what the margin notes flag, and files with every cited exhibit attached.
One contention, from the claim file to filed
Pinecrest Casualty accepted only 50% on Delgado, a left-turn collision in Wexley, Ohio, saying our insured was doing 41 mph on a stale yellow. Here is how the contention reaches the forum, screen by screen, in the working solution.
- 01Monday morning
The contention was drafted overnight
Tessa Marquardt · Arbitration specialistTessa opens APD-26-0418833, Delgado v. Pinecrest Casualty: contention drafted, not filed, file by Fri 16 Oct. The run log shows Sunday night’s work — 61 documents read, 214 facts with their pages, five sections written with every factual sentence cited. The readiness meter says 70% ready to file, with 3 to fix.
Run log: “Exhibit assembler — 10 exhibits attached in citation order · 2 cited files not in the binder.”
- 02One click
Every sentence opens its source
Claim file readerIn the facts of loss, each sentence carries a chip like E-1 p.2. Clicking it opens Wexley Police crash report 26-07-3318 in the side panel at the cited spot: Unit 2, Voss, K., failure to yield turning left, ORC 4511.42, ticket WX-118402. The 14 scene and vehicle photographs open the same way, at the F-150’s passenger doors.
- 03Section 3
Their 41 mph, answered with data
Liability analystPinecrest’s letter gives no source for its speed or its stale yellow. The answer section does: the CR-V’s event data recorder shows 36 mph five seconds before impact and 34 mph one second before, braking from 1.4 seconds, in a 35 mph zone. The city’s signal log has the northbound signal green from 5:41:38 to 5:42:21 pm; the crash notification places the impact at 5:42:04 pm.
“Pinecrest’s 41 mph is answered by the recorder (E-7) and the city’s signal log (E-8), both attached.”
- 04Re-check rules
Three problems pinned in the margin
Forum rules checkerBefore anything goes, the rules check reads the draft against the arbitration rules, revised 1 Jan 2025, and pins each finding beside the paragraph it concerns. The Crossway rental invoice is cited in the damages section but not attached. The $500.00 deductible is counted inside company-paid damages, entering $16,333.40. And Alan Pruett is quoted, but his recorded statement is not listed as evidence.
“The arbitrator may only consider evidence listed and attached, and a filing cannot be amended.”
- 05Three clicks
Each fix, done from the note
Tessa Marquardt · Arbitration specialistEvery margin note carries its fix. Attach as E-10 pulls invoice R-558102 from the claim file — 12 days at $48.00. Correct the total enters $15,833.40 as company-paid damages and claims the deductible as the insured’s interest. Attach as E-4 lists the transcript of Pruett’s 16 Jul call. The meter moves to Ready to file: 10 of 10 checks passed.
“All forum rules checks pass · ready to file.”
- 06Before filing
A three-person panel, then File now
Tessa Marquardt · Arbitration specialistCompany-paid damages are $15,000 and above, so Rule 3-3 makes a three-person panel available; with speed and signal disputed, Tessa requests it and the panel fee is added. The filing screen sums it up: Automobile forum, $15,833.40 plus the $500.00 deductible, 12 exhibits, 47 pages and 14 photos, 10 of 10 checks passed. Under $25,000 and asking for 100%, no supervisor approval is needed.
“Once filed, nothing can be amended (Rule 2-1).”
- 07Filed 12 Oct
The binder the arbitrator will read
Exhibit assemblerTwelve exhibits, numbered in the order the contention first cites them, each with its pages, where it is cited and what was redacted — driver licence numbers on the crash report, a phone number on each statement, the partial VIN on the recorder report. Pinecrest is notified; its response is due Fri 11 Dec.
- 08Same week
Answering Northfield the same way
Tessa Marquardt · Arbitration specialistNorthfield Indemnity filed against us on Huang, claiming $11,284.60. The drafted response accepts 100% liability for the rear impact and disputes $1,488.10 on the Feature Response step under Rule 2-5: 21 rental days against the body shop’s own 9 repair days, a $68.00 labour rate against a surveyed $58.00, and a bumper cover photographed damaged on Northfield’s own 2025 claim. Response due Tue 27 Oct, extension not used.
- 09Every decision
Lost points become checks
Daniel Achebe · Recovery supervisorOutcomes lists the 14 decisions of the last 90 days and what decided each one. Of the 5 split or lost, two had rental cut because the invoice was not attached, one had speed disputed with no recorder data, one quoted a witness without a statement, and one was lost because the failed part was not preserved. Each is now a check that runs before filing. Three awards totalling $41,018.32 are still owed to us.
“Each of these is now a rules check that runs before filing.”