---
title: "Screen an NSW motor accident for lifetime care and support"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/screen-a-severe-motor-accident-injury-for-lifetime-care-and-support/new-south-wales"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A21-WR20261022-5-NSW"
practice_area: "Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["NSW"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Screen an NSW motor accident for lifetime care and support

> From the accident and injury papers, record the eligibility gates on icare's page and do not decide them.…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/screen-a-severe-motor-accident-injury-for-lifetime-care-and-support/new-south-wales  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-25

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | From the accident and injury papers, record the eligibility gates on icare's page and do not decide them. Record the accident date against the child and adult dates, whether the injury is one of the severe injury types listed, and that an interim participant is accepted for two years. |
| What the lawyer must review | The scheme is no-fault. Fault in the accident is not the test on the page that was opened The lawyer decides whether the accident meets the Act. The Act was not read section by section A medical specialist certificate is part of the application. The tool does not complete it Do not treat lifetime care as a substitute for statutory benefits or damages |
| Written for | New South Wales |
| Applies to | [Screen a severe motor-accident injury for lifetime care and support](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/screen-a-severe-motor-accident-injury-for-lifetime-care-and-support.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

The lawyer decides eligibility. The tool records the gates on the icare page and does not answer them.

- What the AI does: From the accident and injury papers, record the eligibility gates on icare's page and do not decide them. Record the accident date against the child and adult dates, whether the injury is one of the severe injury types listed, and that an interim participant is accepted for two years.
- What the lawyer does: Decide whether the accident and the injury meet the scheme, and whether to apply.
- Who reviews: Lawyer competent in this practice area
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 23 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Checks the lawyer makes

1. The page asks whether the motor accident in NSW was on or after 1 October 2006 for a child under 16, or on or after 1 October 2007 for an adult.
2. The injury must have been caused by the motor accident, and the accident must meet the legislative criteria. Those criteria were not opened. The injury must meet the criteria in the Lifetime Care and Support Guidelines.
3. The severe injury types listed are spinal cord injury, brain injury, amputations, burns and permanent blindness. The page names the assessment tools: FIM and WeeFIM, the ASIA scale, percentage loss of limb, and legal blindness in both eyes.
4. An accepted person is an interim participant for two years and may then apply to be a lifetime participant. Where the person is a participant, the CTP insurer must notify the Lifetime Care and Support Authority when it issues a liability notice.

## Notes

- The scheme pays reasonable and necessary treatment, rehabilitation and care. It is not a damages claim.
- The medical certificate is completed by the specialist. The tool does not write it. Health records stay in a firm-controlled tool.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: NSW Lifetime Care and Support Scheme

**Deliverable**: A gate sheet recording the accident date, the injury type and the unanswered eligibility questions.

**Inputs**

- Accident date and age at the accident
- Injury papers selected by the lawyer
- Any existing statutory benefits claim

**Example**: Illustrative example: An adult was injured in a motor accident in 2024 and has a brain injury. The sheet records the adult date gate and that a specialist certificate and the Guidelines criteria are still to be met. It does not say the person is eligible.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The accident date or the age at the accident is unknown.
- The injury is not one of the types listed and the lawyer has not said it is an equivalent impairment.
- Someone proposes to tell the person they have been accepted.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [icare: Lifetime Care and Support Scheme, who we care for](https://www.icare.nsw.gov.au/injured-or-ill-people/motor-accident-injuries/who-we-care-for) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [SIRA: Part 4 of the Motor Accident Guidelines: Claims](https://www.sira.nsw.gov.au/resources-library/motor-accident-resources/publications/for-professionals/motor-accident-guidelines/part-4-of-the-motor-accident-guidelines-claims) (checked 2026-10-23)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Request for NIISQ lifetime participation before the two-year anniversary](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/qld-niisq-lifetime-participation-request.md) | Letter | Yellow | Letter asking the National Injury Insurance Agency, Queensland to repeat an interim participant's eligibility review before the two-year anniversary and to say whether lifetime participation is… |
| [Additional information form (MAIC Form F2)](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/form-qld-maic-additional-information.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to MAIC Form F2 V7 Apr 2022. Section 37A requires the claimant to return the approved additional information form within 1 month after the insurer asks. |
| [Lifetime Care eligibility dispute, and request to review an assessment panel decision](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/nsw-lifetime-care-eligibility-dispute.md) | Letter | Yellow | Letter disputing a Lifetime Care eligibility decision, with a separate written request to review an assessment panel decision on the four grounds the icare page lists. |
| [Request for Lifetime Care lifetime participation near the end of the two years](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/nsw-lifetime-care-lifetime-participation-request.md) | Letter | Yellow | Letter from an interim Lifetime Care participant asking to be accepted for lifetime participation near the end of the two years, with the injury criteria the who-we-care-for page states. |
| [Request to the Transport Accident Commission for attendant care or post-acute support](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/vic-tac-attendant-care-request.md) | Letter | Yellow | Letter asking the Transport Accident Commission to fund attendant care or post-acute support after a transport accident. The opened policy does not describe a separate lifetime support scheme. |
| [NIISQ application for interim participation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/form-qld-niisq-interim-participation.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the NIISQ interim-participant application for a serious personal injury in a Queensland motor accident on or after 1 July 2016. A medical specialist completes the medical certificate. |
| [Lifetime Care interim application (icare): severe motor accident injury](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/form-nsw-icare-lifetime-care-interim-application.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to icare's Lifetime Care application page for a severe motor accident injury, including the signed consent, the medical certificate and the two-year interim participation. |

Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*