Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2324 – Compensation for total disability
For injuries resulting in total disability occurring after July 1, 1975, the compensation to be paid during the continuance of total disability shall be 662/3% of the wages of the injured employee, as defined by this chapter, but the compensation shall not be more than 662/3% of the average weekly wage per week as announced by the Secretary of the Department of Labor for the last calendar year for which a determination of the average weekly wage has been made, nor less than 222/9% of the average weekly wage per week. If at the time of the injury the employee receives wages of less than 222/9% of the average weekly wage per week, then the employee shall receive the full amount of such wages per week, as compensation. Nothing in this section shall require the payment of compensation after disability ceases.
Code 1915, § ?3193j; 29 Del. Laws, c. 233; 30 Del. Laws, c. 203, § ?3; 32 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?2; 35 Del. Laws, c. 192, § ?1; 37 Del. Laws, c. 239, § ?2; Code 1935, § ?6080; 43 Del. Laws, c. 269, § ?8; 45 Del. Laws, c. 297, § ?1; 46 Del. Laws, c. 29; 47 Del. Laws, c. 160, § ?1; 48 Del. Laws, c. 190, § ?1; 19 Del. C. 1953, § ?2324; 50 Del. Laws, c. 339, § ?6; 50 Del. Laws, c. 465, § ?2; 52 Del. Laws, c. 27; 57 Del. Laws, c. 520, § ?1; 59 Del. Laws, c. 454, § ?10; 70 Del. Laws, c. 172, § ?4; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2324
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Department: means the Department of Labor. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
- 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
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302