In the State Claims Agency, we are often asked by employees working in our State authorities, who are involved in managing their organisation’s claims, about their role in the claims resolution process, as it relates to personal injury and third-party property damage claims.
During a claim, your State authority remains the legal defendant in the claim and the State Claims Agency will be solely responsible for resolving the claim on your behalf, from initiation to resolution. We also provide risk management advice around learning from pertinent individual claims, and on a national basis, to help mitigate risk and enhance safety.
Key stages of the claims lifecycle
Under section 11 of the NTMA (Amendment) Act 2000, as amended, State authorities must furnish all necessary and requested information and documentation to the State Claims Agency in a timely manner, and permit and assist us to investigate incidents on their behalf.
In general, the General Indemnity Scheme claims lifecycle flows as follows:
- Claim Notification
- Claim Investigation
- Claim Liability Determination
- Claim Resolution Approach
- Claim Outcome
- Claim Learning
At each stage of the lifecycle, both the State Claims Agency and the State authority have an important role to play.
Your role/involvement will include, but not be limited to, locating and providing records, arranging meetings, making witnesses available for interview, providing access to any property that is the subject of a claim, providing copies of any internal/external investigations that may have been carried out in relation to the incident/claim, and the provision of earnings-related information, where required/relevant, and examining opportunities to learn from certain claims.
Visual overview
We have developed a visual overview of the lifecycle of a claim which sets out the key tasks of State authorities at each stage of the process. We hope you find this quick reference guide useful as we continue to work together to resolve claims.
You can also download a copy of this infographic below:
Further resources
For further information on the claims resolution process, you will find a range of Frequently Asked Questions here, and for the risk management process, you will find our Frequently Asked Questions here. These are reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis.
You can also keep up-to-date with the latest claims and risk learning articles, publications and events in our State Authority Learning and Events Hub.
General Indemnity Scheme
Through the General Indemnity Scheme, State indemnity is provided to State authorities for injuries to people, such as staff members, members of the public, or service users which was the result of negligence on the part of the State Authority, its servants and/or agents.
