I am not suggesting that this event was caused by late load figures, but I know of another large international airline that has changed their procedures in the last couple of years so that the pushback cannot begin until the final load figures have been received and all relevant FMS entries have been completed. The change was driven by a number of taxiing incidents that were traced to crew member distraction. The procedural change wasn't just at the front end crew level. Load planning and computation procedures were revised and simplified and the net result has been a fairly efficient program that rarely results in delays or LMCs. Those who taxi behind them are very pleased they made this decision as they were once notorious for holding up the queue waiting for the final numbers.