AGENCY: Workers Compensation Fund Division. Claims
SERIES: 8525
TITLE: Inactive insurance claims files
DATES: 1917-1990.
ARRANGEMENT: None.
DESCRIPTION: These are case files which document the award of workers compensation insurance to any employee injured while on the job. They track the justification for the award and any further actions that are taken on the individual after the file has been closed due to complications in the post-recovery period. These files include correspondence with physicians, employers, and injured employees; injury reports filed by the employee, the employer, and the doctor; employment, medical histories, and psychological profiles; invoices from providers; payment histories; court records, and legal working papers; marriage, death, and birth certificates; insurance adjusters working papers; and x-rays.
RETENTION
Retain for 65 year(s)
DISPOSITION
Destroy.
RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION
Retention and disposition for this series were specifically approved by the State Records Committee.
APPROVED: 10/1986
FORMAT MANAGEMENT
Paper: Retain in Office for 3 years and then transfer to State Records Center. Retain in State Records Center for 7 years and then microfilm and destroy provided microfilm has passed inspection.
Microfilm master: Retain in Office for 65 years and then destroy.
APPRAISAL
Administrative Legal
This retention is based on the court decisions: Nolan W. Marshall versus The Industrial commission of the State of Utah, Emery Mining Co., the Workers' Compensation of Utah, and the Second Injury Fund of Utah in the Utah Supreme Court, Case Number 19153, filed April 5, 1984; and, Beverly R. Buxton versus the Industrial Commission of Utah in the Utah Supreme Court, Case Number 15802, filed October 27, 1978. The medical payment histories will not be filmed with the rest of the records in the files.
PRIMARY DESIGNATION
Private. Except for psychological profiles, legal working papers, and insurance adjusters working papers.
SECONDARY DESIGNATION
Controlled. Psychological profiles, legal working papers, and insurance adjusters working papers.