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In Queensland, during the pre-litigation stage of personal injuries claims, one of the banes of defendant lawyers’ lives is responding to lengthy requests for disclosure, many of which seem to increasingly extend beyond the ambit of the disclosure obligations under the Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002 (the PIPA). This may partly be explained by the seemingly more liberal interpretation of the disclosure obligations given by the courts in recent times. There are essentially two types of disclosure obligations under the PIPA: a positive obligation to disclose documents; and a reactive obligation to disclose information upon request. This article examines the scope of the obligation to disclose documents ‘about the incident’ and the scope of that phrase.