Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9111 – Fraud
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(a) If a potentially responsible party commits fraud on the Secretary or another potentially responsible party in a proposed settlement agreement or in an application for a certification of completion of remedy, then any limitation on liability otherwise provided herein shall be void, and any injured person, including the Secretary, may recover actual damages sustained as well as a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for each fraudulent act.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9111
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Person: means an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, state government agency, unit of local government, school district, conservation district, federal government agency, Indian tribe or interstate body. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
- Potentially responsible party: means any person identified pursuant to § 9105(a)(1) through (6) of this title as a person liable with respect to a facility. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
- Remedy: means any action, response or expenditure consistent with the purposes of this chapter to identify, minimize or eliminate any imminent threat posed by any hazardous substances to public health or welfare or the environment including preparation of any plans, conducting of any studies and any investigative, oversight of remedy or monitoring activities with respect to any release or imminent threat of release of a hazardous substance and any health assessments, risk assessments or health effect studies or natural resource damage assessments conducted in order to determine the risk or potential risk to public health or welfare or the environment. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
- Secretary: means Secretary of the Department or the Secretary's designee. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
(b) The Secretary may bring an action in the Superior Court to establish and collect a civil penalty for which a person is liable for fraud under this chapter.