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title: "Test a Victorian disease against the contribution table the manual states"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/test-a-gradual-onset-disease-claim-against-the-employment-contribution-t/victoria"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A21-WC20261023-18-VIC"
practice_area: "Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["VIC"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Test a Victorian disease against the contribution table the manual states

> From the condition and the work history, using a firm-controlled tool, table the contribution words the claims manual states and stop at 2 December 2003. Do not invent a later ordinary-disease test.

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## 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 condition and the work history, using a firm-controlled tool, table the contribution words the claims manual states and stop at 2 December 2003. Do not invent a later ordinary-disease test. |
| What the lawyer must review | Decide the contribution question only as far as the manual goes. Do not write a test for an ordinary disease after 2 December 2003. Use the separate tests for heart attack, stroke and a primary mental injury. Health and wage records stay in a firm-controlled tool. Apply ASCR r 9, APP 11, and the notifiable-breach test. |
| Written for | Victoria |
| Applies to | [Test a gradual-onset disease claim against the employment-contribution test](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/test-a-gradual-onset-disease-claim-against-the-employment-contribution-t.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

A disease without sudden physiological change is injury in the extended sense. The manual's table requires a contributing factor until 30 November 1992 and a significant contributing factor from 1 December 1992 to 2 December 2003. It gives the factors for that phrase. It does not state the ordinary-disease rule after the table ends. The current section number is not stated.

- What the AI does: From the condition and the work history, using a firm-controlled tool, table the contribution words the claims manual states and stop at 2 December 2003. Do not invent a later ordinary-disease test.
- What the lawyer does: The lawyer decides the legal question, checks the sources, and authorises anything the family or the insurer will receive.
- Who reviews: Lawyer competent in statutory workers compensation
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 23 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Checks the lawyer makes

1. Class the condition as a sudden injury or as a disease before choosing a test.
2. If the relevant employment is after 2 December 2003, say the opened table has ended.
3. Use the manual's factor list where the significant-contributing-factor explanation applies.
4. Do not decide a dust disease, a firefighter cancer or a heart attack on this table.

## Notes

- No generative-AI practice note of the Workplace Injury Commission, Medical Panels or a Victorian court was opened. Apply the forum's current direction before a document is lodged.
- The manual cites the Accident Compensation Act beside a current-Act icon. Confirm the current disease provision before advice.
- If health or wage records leave the firm-controlled tool, decide whether a Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) breach is notifiable.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: Victoria, claims manual, extended definition of injury

**Deliverable**: A disease note that stops where the contribution table stops.

**Inputs**

- Diagnosis
- When the work said to cause it was done
- Other causes, including hereditary risks and activities outside work

**Example**: Illustrative example: A skin condition is attributed to work in 2001 and to later employment. The note uses the significant-contributing-factor factors for the 2001 period and says the manual states no ordinary-disease test for the later period. The lawyer confirms the current Act.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The condition is a heart attack, a stroke or a primary mental injury.
- A post-2003 test would have to be written from outside the manual.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [WorkSafe Victoria claims manual: define an injury](https://www1.worksafe.vic.gov.au/vwa/claimsmanual/Claims%20Manual/2-claims-management/2-1-workers-and-injuries/2-1-6-define-an-injury.htm) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [WorkSafe Victoria: presumptive rights compensation](https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/presumptive-rights-compensation) (checked 2026-10-23)

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