Letter · Personal Injury & Compensation

Covering letter for an application to review a Queensland workers' compensation decision

A covering letter for the approved application to the Workers' Compensation Regulator, with draft grounds, the documents to be considered, and a request for reasons where the notice gave none. It is not itself the application.

Kind: Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
Where it applies: Queensland
AI use: Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
Law stated as at: 23 October 2026
Status: Maintained. Checked on 23 October 2026 against the 6 authorities it cites, for Queensland.
Version: 1
Source: Written for this library

When to use it

Use when a worker wants the Regulator to review a Queensland workers' compensation insurer's decision. The application must be in the approved form. Use the reasons request only if the notice did not state the reasons, and send that request within 20 business days.

Used for these tasks

Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.

How AI may be used

The lawyer and the tool draft the grounds and the document list from the decision and the instructions, and the lawyer checks that the decision is reviewable and completes the approved form before it is lodged.

AI may

Summarise the decision and the date reasons were received, from the notice
Turn the worker's instructions into short grounds for the lawyer to put on the form
List the documents to be attached, from the file index the lawyer has marked

AI must not

Must not lodge this letter as the application, or sign the approved form
Must not write in any declaration or signature block on the form
Must not include a ground that is not in the instructions or the documents
Must not use the 20 business day reasons request if the notice already stated the reasons

The lawyer checks

The decision is one section 540 allows to be reviewed, checked against the notice and WorkSafe's list
The 3 months are counted from receipt of the notice and the reasons, or from the later reasons if subsection (4) applies
The grounds and the documents are on the approved form, because the review officer does not re-investigate
Draft only in the firm's approved tool. In Victoria and New South Wales, do not disclose confidential client information without authority under Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules r 9.2.1. A Queensland solicitor checks the local conduct rules.
If client information leaves the approved environment, check APP 11 and whether there is an eligible data breach under the Privacy Act notifiable data breach scheme.

Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.

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