AGENCY: Labor Commission

SERIES: 82515
TITLE: Workers' compensation fund policy folders
DATES: 1940-1970.
ARRANGEMENT: none

DESCRIPTION: These are workers' compensation insurance policy folders of all local businesses during this time period. All employers in Utah are required to hold workers' compensation insurance covering their employees, and must submit notification of this coverage to the Uninsured Employers' Fund. During these dates, this notification was in the form of a complete copy of the business' insurance policy. This is no longer the case; therefore, these records ceased accumulation in 1970. The information includes the name of the business, the insurance carrier, the policy number, and the date the policy was effective.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

APPROVED: 09/1988

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 15 years after receipt of policy information and then transfer to State Records Center. Retain in State Records Center for 15 years and then destroy.

APPRAISAL

Administrative

These files document insurance coverage for companies which may now be nonexistant or covered under a different name or insurance carrier. They are the only source of this information for these dates. Once they are destroyed, the insurance coverage history will be lost, and any employee returning with a job related condition will have no record of coverage. In this case, the employee must be covered out of public funds by the Uninsured Employers' Fund.

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