Pleadings, responses to pleadings, exhibits, and transcripts submitted to the division of workers' compensation shall be scanned, attached, and filed in portable document format (pdf) or as image-on-text documents (searchable pdf). A hearing report or proposed order or proposed ruling shall be submitted as a pdf or searchable pdf. Transcripts submitted shall include an index. Filings shall not exceed 20 megabytes (MB). Documents exceeding 20 MB shall be divided and submitted as separate attachments to comply with this size limit. All filings pursuant to this rule shall be submitted via WCES unless otherwise ordered by the workers' compensation commissioner or a deputy workers' compensation commissioner. Audio or video files shall use MP3 or MP4 format and should be submitted with a virus-scanned USB drive and shall not exceed 500 MB for each filing.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code chapters 85, 85A, 85B and 86.
Iowa Admin. Code r. 876-2.8