Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 18 > Chapter 53 - Mutual Assessment Property Insurers

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Charging party: means any individual or the Department who initiates proceedings by the filing of a verified charge of discrimination, and who preserves a cause of action in Superior Court by exhausting the administrative remedies pursuant to the provisions of § 714 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 710
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Employee: means an individual employed by an employer, but does not include:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 710

• Employer: means any person employing 4 or more employees within the State at the time of the alleged violation, including the State or any political subdivision or board, department, commission or school district thereof. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 710
• Employment agency: means any person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer and includes an agent of such a person. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 710
• Labor organization: includes any organization of any kind, any agency or employee representation committee, group, association or plan so engaged in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours or other terms or conditions of employment, any conference, general committee, joint or system board or joint council so engaged which is subordinate to a national or international labor organization. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 710
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Pregnancy: means pregnancy, childbirth, or a related condition, including, but not limited to, lactation. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 710
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Reasonable accommodation: has the meaning given this term in § 722 of this title, except that all references to disability shall instead be references to known limitations of a person related to pregnancy, childbirth, or a related condition. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 710
• Respondent: means any person named in the Charge of Discrimination, including but not limited to employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, joint labor-management committees, controlling apprenticeship or other training programs including on-the-job training programs. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 710