Keeping complex estate cases moving

Gatestone brought a connected case view to a consumer lender’s estate portfolio, linking account reviews, specialist decisions and follow-up.

Client profileConsumer lender
Service scopeEstate-case coordination
The challenge

Several accounts without a complete view

An estate notification could involve several accounts and several teams within the consumer lender. Documents were checked in one queue, balances reviewed in another and exceptions handled elsewhere.

Each team could see its own progress. No single view explained what was holding the overall case open. Routine status enquiries reached employees who could describe an activity but could not resolve the dependency behind the delay.

The lender needed coordinated follow-through across those reviews while keeping account and legal decisions with its authorised specialists.

Gatestone’s work

Making the remaining work visible

01

The remaining work

Gatestone recorded the accounts involved, the required reviews and the information still outstanding in a connected case view. Cases were classified using the lender's approved rules. Tasks that could proceed together were distinguished from work that depended on a specialist decision.

02

Accepted handoffs

Each task had a responsible person and an agreed review date. Exceptions were referred with the relevant history and a specific question to resolve. The case coordinator continued following up until the receiving team accepted the handoff.

03

Connected account activity

This gave the team a practical account of the remaining work. A completed document check and an unresolved account question could be understood in relation to the same estate, rather than appearing as unrelated entries in separate queues.

How the work changed

Following the dependency through to a decision

Stalled dependencies

Gatestone reviewed ageing cases for unanswered requests and stalled dependencies. Issues were raised with designated client contacts, then the decision and next action were recorded in the case history.

Authorised decisions

The lender retained authority over representative status, legal interpretation, balances and closure. Gatestone coordinated document tracking, status enquiries and follow-up around those decisions.

Closure checks confirmed that required reviews and communications were recorded before a case left the active queue.

What changed

The complete estate case

01Reviewing the remaining work

The service review separated internal follow-up delays from time needed for external information or decisions. It also examined referrals returned for unclear context and tasks without an accepted handoff or next review date.

02A complete case view

The engagement connected the lender's specialist reviews through a maintained case record. The team handling a status enquiry could identify the outstanding step and the person responsible for it.

03Coordinated casework

Case coordination gave the separate account activities a common direction, extending through the recorded checks required for closure.

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