Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2321 – Minimum duration of incapacity
Permanent injury relating to hearing or vision loss, surgical, medical and hospital services, medicines and supplies, and funeral benefits shall be paid from the first day of injury. Beginning with the fourth day of incapacity, all compensation otherwise provided by law shall be paid. If the incapacity extends to 7 days or more, including the day of injury, the employee shall receive all compensation otherwise provided by law from the first day of injury.
Code 1915, § ?3193h; 29 Del. Laws, c. 233; 30 Del. Laws, c. 203, § ?2; 32 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 37 Del. Laws, c. 239, § ?1; Code 1935, § ?6078; 43 Del. Laws, c. 269, § ?6; 19 Del. C. 1953, § ?2321; 49 Del. Laws, c. 429, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 205, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 532, § ?1;
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2321
- Employee: means every person in service of any corporation (private, public, municipal or quasi-public), association, firm or person, excepting those employees excluded by this subchapter, under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, or performing services for a valuable consideration, excluding spouse and minor children of a farm employer unless the spouse or minor child is a bona fide employee of a farm employer and is named in an endorsement to the farm employer's contract of insurance, and excluding any person whose employment is casual and not in the regular course of the trade, business, profession or occupation of his or her employer, and not including persons to whom articles or materials are furnished or repaired, or adopted for sale in the worker's own home, or on the premises not under the control or management of the employer. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301