---
title: "Settlement distribution statement for a personal injury claim"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/personal-injury-settlement-distribution-statement"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a21-personal-injury-settlement-distribution-statement"
area_id: "A21"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A21-T1-R10", "A21-W20261018-3", "A21-W20261018-1", "A21-W20261018-2"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-23"
---

# Settlement distribution statement for a personal injury claim

> Statement the client receives showing the gross personal injury settlement, the costs, the disbursements and the statutory amounts the lawyer has sourced, and the resulting net sum.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/personal-injury-settlement-distribution-statement  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-23

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

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Personal Injury & Compensation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation.md)
- Jurisdictions: Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales
- 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 5 authorities it cites, for Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales.

## When to use it

Use with the settlement advice letter, before the client accepts, and again when the final notices arrive. Every dollar is traced to a notice, an invoice or the deed. A blank is left blank.

## Used for these tasks

- [Draft a settlement advice and conference paper](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/draft-a-settlement-advice-and-conference-paper.md)
- [Draft the compensation recovery terms of a personal injury settlement deed](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/draft-the-compensation-recovery-terms-of-a-personal-injury-settlement-de.md)
- [Notify Medicare of a judgment or settlement and track the clearance](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/notify-medicare-of-a-judgment-or-settlement-and-track-the-clearance.md)
- [Calculate the Centrelink compensation preclusion period before settlement](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/calculate-the-centrelink-compensation-preclusion-period-before-settlemen.md)

## How AI may be used

AI may add rows from invoices and statutory notices the lawyer has accepted, and total only those rows, in a firm-controlled tool; the lawyer checks every line before the client sees the statement.

**AI may:**

- Enter each invoice, notice and agreed cost figure in its own row with the document name and date
- Total the rows the lawyer has marked as included
- Flag a row that has an amount and no source document

**AI must not:**

- Must not estimate a Medicare charge, a preclusion repayment or an NDIS figure that is not on a notice or in the lawyer's written figure
- Must not describe an estimate as the final net payment
- Must not put the source notices into a public tool

**The lawyer checks:**

- The costs rows match the s 177 or s 312 disclosure given before execution
- Each deduction names the notice, invoice or agreement it comes from
- The net sum and the deed's payment clause describe the same money
- Where a Queensland sanction is required, the standard-costs and indemnity-costs estimates required by Practice Direction 15 of 2018 are in the sanction material, not only in this statement

## Authorities

- [Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) s 177 (reasonable estimates of costs payable by the client, and of contributions from another party, before settlement)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/lpul333/s177.html)
- [Legal Profession Act 2007 (Qld) s 312 (the same estimates before settlement is executed)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/lpa2007179/s312.html)
- [Services Australia, Medicare Compensation Recovery Notification Requirements](https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/medicare-compensation-recovery-notification-requirements)
- [Services Australia, Preclusion periods for Centrelink compensation recovery](https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/preclusion-periods-for-centrelink-compensation-recovery?context=22516)
- [Supreme Court of Queensland Practice Direction 15 of 2018, paragraph 12 (estimates of standard costs, indemnity costs, and the difference paid from the compromise sum)](https://www.courts.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/578195/sc-pd-15of2018.pdf)

## 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/personal-injury-settlement-distribution-statement 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.*