---
title: "Letter to a former employer: employment history and the workers compensation insurer"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/letter-former-employer-dust-history-insurer"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a21-letter-former-employer-dust-history-insurer"
area_id: "A21"
kind: "letter"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A21-DD20261023-2", "A21-T1-R12", "A21-T1-R13"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-23"
---

# Letter to a former employer: employment history and the workers compensation insurer

> A letter asking a former employer for the client's dates, job, sites, dust products, and the workers compensation insurer or self-insurer for those years.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/letter-former-employer-dust-history-insurer  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-23

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## Key facts

- Kind: Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
- Practice area: [Personal Injury & Compensation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation.md)
- Jurisdictions: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-23
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-23 against the 3 authorities it cites, for New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.

## When to use it

Use before a New South Wales insurance-records search, and in Victoria or Queensland where the compensation file may not name the historical insurer. The employer receives it. It does not start a claim and it does not claim against an insurer of a deregistered company.

## Used for these tasks

- [Build an exposure and employer history for a dust claim](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/build-an-exposure-and-employer-history-for-a-dust-claim.md)
- [Prepare an occupational-disease or dust-disease file chronology and issues list](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/prepare-an-occupational-disease-or-dust-disease-file-chronology-and-issu.md)
- [Draft correspondence to the insurer or scheme agent](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/draft-correspondence-to-the-insurer-or-scheme-agent.md)

## How AI may be used

AI may prepare this letter from the employment instructions the lawyer has accepted, and the lawyer checks the recipient and sends it.

**AI may:**

- Name one employer, the years and the sites from the accepted instructions
- Ask for the insurer, self-insurer or scheme agent, and for the employment records listed
- Ask the named insurer, if one is already known, to confirm the policy years without making a claim

**AI must not:**

- Must not assert that the company is deregistered, or claim on an insurer under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
- Must not call the reply period a statutory deadline
- Must not describe the client's diagnosis beyond the dust disease the lawyer has recorded
- Must not attach a medical report unless the lawyer has decided to send it

**The lawyer checks:**

- The recipient is the employer, or its proper officer, and not a deregistered company unless the lawyer has a current address for service
- SIRA's form asks for this attempt before a New South Wales search. Keep a copy of the letter as that attempt
- If an insurer is already named, the confirmation paragraph asks it to confirm the policy. It is not a notice of claim
- Personal information stays in a firm-approved tool. Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules rule 9, Australian Privacy Principle 11, and a notifiable-breach check apply

## Authorities

- [SIRA, Application for workers compensation insurance claims, policy and settlement records (attempt to obtain the information from the employer or insurer before lodging)](https://www.sira.nsw.gov.au/resources-library/workers-compensation-resources/forms/workers-and-claims/application-for-wci-insurance-records.pdf)
- [icare Dust Diseases Care, Who we care for (Dust Diseases Care is a separate statutory support path for exposure while employed in New South Wales)](https://www.icare.nsw.gov.au/injured-or-ill-people/work-related-dust-disease/who-we-care-for)
- [WorkSafe Victoria, Request access to information (the worker's claim file is a different request from this letter to the employer)](https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/request-access-information)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/letter-former-employer-dust-history-insurer and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

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