Index a Queensland notice of claim for the lawyer to complete
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- RedLawyer-led
- How AI is used
- Index the attachments and compare draft answers with the records. Write nothing into the notice or claim form.
- What the lawyer must review
- You and the client complete every answer. The tool writes none of them
- Check PIPA section 9(1B) on the current form: the approved form may require a statutory declaration
- Check the MAIA non-fatal notice and WCRA section 275(5): each requires a statutory declaration
- Sign a section 275 notice only in the urgent case section 276(3) allows
Rules that apply
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The work product
Forum. Queensland pre-court notices under the Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002, the Motor Accident Insurance Act 1994, or section 275 of the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003.
Produce. An index of attachments and a comparison of draft answers to the records. The form itself is completed by the lawyer and the client.
Have ready. The current approved form; The records and draft answers; Instructions on the respondent, the insurer and the dates.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: A draft answer gives a symptom date the records do not state. The lawyer leaves that answer blank for the client and does not let the tool complete the declaration.
Stop and hand it back when
- The tool is asked to write an answer, a declaration or the law practice certificate.
- The current approved form has not been downloaded.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Supporting preparation only. Index the attachments and compare draft answers with the records. Write nothing into the notice or claim form. The tool writes nothing into the document. Substantive advice, judgement and any restricted content remain with the responsible human. |
| Lawyer | Perform the substantive analysis and decisions. Independently check any permitted supporting work and approve the exact output for its intended use. |
Checklist
- Choose the pathway. Section 6 takes a Motor Accident Insurance Act injury, and chapter 5 damages against an employer, outside the Personal Injuries Proceedings Act. Dust-related conditions are outside it. A work injury claim against someone other than the employer can still be inside it.
- Personal Injuries Proceedings Act part 1 is due on the earlier of two days. The first is the day 9 months after the incident or, if symptoms of the injury were not immediately apparent, the first appearance of symptoms. The second is the day 1 month after the claimant first instructs a law practice to act in seeking damages and the proposed defendant is identified. Part 2 is within two months of the earlier of section 10(1) or the section 13 presumption. Subsections 9(3), (5) and (6) do not apply to abuse of the person as a child. A medical incident has an initial notice under section 9A. If the respondent is the State, part 1 goes to the Crown solicitor and names the department.
- Motor Accident Insurance Act section 37: three months for an unidentified vehicle to the Nominal Defendant, otherwise the notice is due on the earlier of two days. The first is the day 9 months after the accident or, if symptoms were not immediately apparent, the first appearance of symptoms. The second is the day 1 month after the claimant first consults a lawyer about the possibility of making a claim. Failure to notify the Nominal Defendant of an unidentified vehicle within nine months bars that claim. The opened non-fatal notice verifies the claimant certificate by statutory declaration.
- Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act section 275: the notice goes to the insurer's registered office, with a copy to the employer if the employer is not a self-insurer, within the period in section 302. Statements in the claimant's personal knowledge are verified by statutory declaration. The notice includes the liability statement, a genuine offer or reasons, the section 275(7) authority and the law practice certificate if a practice is retained.
- Download the current approved form. The publications dataset says the Personal Injuries Proceedings Act forms in force from 1 September 2025 replace the previous notices. The opened Form 275 was approved on 1 May 2014. Confirm it is still the approved form. Compare every answer with the records before the client signs.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limitation and notice diary procedure | Policy | AI use Yellow | Firm procedure for recording limitation and pre-action notice dates on a plaintiff injury file. |
| Worker's injury claim form (SIRA): weekly payments and treatment expenses | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to SIRA's worker's injury claim form for weekly payments and treatment costs, with the sections every claim needs, the signed declaration, and the certificate of capacity to send with it. |
| Notice of accident claim, non-fatal injury (MAIC Form F1) | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to MAIC Form F1 V8 Oct 2022, the Notice of Accident Claim Form (Non-Fatal Injury). |
| Application for review (SAET form A02, Return to Work): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to SAET form A02, Application for Review (Return to Work), on the start-a-new-case page. |
| TAC online claim lodgement: what to gather and when the claim is lodged | Form | AI use Yellow | Guide to the Transport Accident Commission's online claim form: the 12-month lodgement period, the documents the form asks for, and the rule that a saved draft is kept for 10 days. |
| Workers compensation claim form (WorkCover WA): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the WorkCover WA claim form page. |
| Request to the Transport Accident Commission for a serious injury certificate | Letter | AI use Yellow | Letter asking the Transport Accident Commission to determine impairment and, if it is under 30 per cent, to issue a serious injury certificate for a common law damages claim. |
| Certificate of capacity / certificate of fitness (SIRA) | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to SIRA's certificate of capacity and certificate of fitness for workers compensation and CTP, including the doctor's certificate and the person's employment declaration. |
| Notice of accident claim, fatal injury (MAIC Form F4) | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the MAIC Notice of Accident Claim Form (Fatal Injury). |
| Application for expedited decision (SAET form A03): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to SAET form A03, Application for Expedited Decision (Return to Work), named on the start-a-new-case page. |
| TAC funeral and dependency benefits claim form: completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the TAC form for funeral expenses and dependency benefits after a death in a transport accident, with the online form and the PDF the TAC publishes on the same page. |
| Notice to a road authority of an incident, asking for inspection and complaint records | Letter | AI use Yellow | A letter giving a Victorian road authority the particulars of a notice of incident, and asking a road authority in Victoria, Queensland or New South Wales for the inspection, complaint and repair records for the site. |
| Request that the Transport Accident Commission accept a late Part 3 claim | Letter | AI use Yellow | Letter asking the Transport Accident Commission to accept a Part 3 claim made after one year and before three years, setting out the grounds for the delay. |
| Additional information form (MAIC Form F2) | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to MAIC Form F2 V7 Apr 2022. |
| Application for suitable employment (SAET form A04): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to SAET form A04, Application for Suitable Employment (Return to Work), named on the start-a-new-case page. |
| TAC serious injury application form (Common Law Protocols 2026): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Guide to the TAC form lawyers use to request a serious injury certificate under Part 6 of the Transport Accident Act 1986 and the Common Law Protocols 2026, including the section 93(17) limbs and the signed authority. |
| Application for arbitration (WorkCover WA): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the WorkCover WA Application for Arbitration. |
| Queensland Notice of Accident Claim: time, service and a reply to noncompliance | Checklist | AI use Yellow | Checklist for a Queensland CTP Notice of Accident Claim, and a short reply when the insurer says the notice does not comply. |
| Law practice certificate for a Queensland CTP claim (MAIC) | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the MAIC law practice certificate page. |
| Work injury claim (ReturnToWorkSA online): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the ReturnToWorkSA page for reporting an injury or making a claim. |
| Application for payment of wages (SAET form A06): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to SAET form A06, Application for payment of wages under the Return to Work Act, named on the start-a-new-case page. |
| Letter of claim to a public health service, including an initial notice | Letter | AI use Yellow | Letter of claim to a public health service. |
| Queensland part 1 notice of claim and reply to a compliance response | Letter | AI use Yellow | Letter and checklist for giving part 1 of a Queensland notice of claim under the Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002, and for answering a respondent who says part 1 does not comply. |
| Application for mediation (NT WorkSafe): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the NT WorkSafe application for mediation under the Return to Work Act 1986. |
| PIPA notice of claim, non-health care (Form 1, version 7) | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to Personal Injuries Proceedings Act Form 1, version 7, in force from 1 September 2025. |
| Workers compensation claim form (WorkSafe Tasmania): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the WorkSafe Tasmania page for accessing a workers compensation claim form. |
| TAC common law time limit notification form: completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Guide to the TAC form used when a serious injury certificate application will be lodged outside the six-year period in the Limitation of Actions Act 1958, under the Common Law Protocol 2026. |
| Queensland notice of claim for damages: assembly checklist | Checklist | AI use Yellow | Checklist for assembling a notice of claim for damages under section 275 of the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld) before a proceeding is started. |
| Workers compensation claim (WorkSafe ACT): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the WorkSafe ACT page on how to make a workers compensation claim. |
| PIPA notice of claim, health care (Form 2, version 7) | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to Personal Injuries Proceedings Act Form 2, version 7, for a health care claim. |
| TAC common law application form (Common Law Protocol 2026): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Guide to the TAC form used after a proactive or fast track serious injury grant, which must be sent before a common law conference is arranged. |
| Request that a NSW CTP insurer concede impairment greater than 10 per cent | Letter | AI use Yellow | Letter asking a New South Wales CTP insurer to concede that permanent impairment from a motor accident is greater than 10 per cent, and recording the section 6.14 time for a damages claim. |
| Workers compensation claim form (NT WorkSafe): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the NT WorkSafe approved workers compensation claim form for a claim other than death. |
| PIPA notice of claim, dependency (Form 3, version 6) | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to Personal Injuries Proceedings Act Form 3, version 6, for a dependency claim. |
| WorkSafe worker's injury claim form: completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Guide to the WorkSafe worker's injury claim form, in myWorkSafe or as a PDF, including the certificate of capacity, the signed medical authority and declaration, and mental-injury rules from 31 March 2024. |
| NSW work injury damages: claim letter and pre-filing checklist | Letter | AI use Yellow | Letter to a New South Wales workers compensation insurer claiming work injury damages, with a checklist for the section 315 pre-filing statement. |
| WorkCover Queensland application for compensation | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the WorkSafe page for making a workers' compensation claim: a valid application needs the approved form and a work capacity certificate. |
| Victorian WorkSafe impairment benefit: stability checklist | Checklist | AI use Yellow | Checklist and short letter asking a WorkSafe agent to assess a permanent impairment benefit once the injury is stable. |
| WorkSafe claim for compensation following a work-related death: completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the WorkSafe form used after the death of a worker from a work-related injury or illness, including dependency, grief and loss, and funeral expenses. |
| Notice of claim for damages (WorkCover Form 275) | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to Form 275, version 3, the approved notice of claim for damages under section 275. |
| WorkSafe Form A, application for common law damages: completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Guide to WorkSafe Form A for an application under section 328 of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 or section 134AB(4) of the Accident Compensation Act 1985. |
| WorkSafe Form D, authority to release medical information: completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to WorkSafe Form D, the signed authority and consent to release medical information that accompanies a common law damages application. |
| Wrongs Act Form 4, claimant's prescribed information: completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Guide to Form 4, the claimant's prescribed information named on the Medical Panels Wrongs Act referrals page, including the section 28LZC(b) certification. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.
Sources
- Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002 (Qld), sections 6 and 9 · 2026-10-23
- Queensland Government personal-injury forms dataset · 2026-10-23
- Motor Accident Insurance Act 1994 (Qld), section 37, and the MAIC non-fatal notice · 2026-10-23
- MAIC Notice of Accident Claim Form, non-fatal injury · 2026-10-23
- Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld), sections 275 and 276 · 2026-10-23
- WorkSafe Form 275 notice of claim for damages · 2026-10-23
The tool writes nothing into the notice, the claimant's statutory declaration, or the supervising principal's law practice certificate. Supreme Court Practice Direction 5 of 2025 and District Court Practice Direction 12 of 2025 apply to anything later filed.
Section 9(9) says that giving part 1 after symptoms appear does not decide when the cause of action arose. The lawyer still checks the Limitation of Actions Act 1974. The Personal Injuries Proceedings Regulation was not opened.
Form 275, as opened, is declared before a justice of the peace, a commissioner for declarations or a solicitor. Section 276(3) allows the claimant's lawyer to sign where it is not reasonably practicable for the claimant to do so, in that urgent-need section.