Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2341 – Notice of injury; time of; and failure to give
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Unless the employer has actual knowledge of the occurrence of the injury or unless the employee, or someone on the employee’s behalf, or some of the dependents, or someone on their behalf, gives notice thereof to the employer within 90 days after the accident, no compensation shall be due until such notice is given or knowledge obtained.
Code 1915, § ?3193l; 29 Del. Laws, c. 233; Code 1935, § ?6082; 19 Del. C. 1953, § ?2341; 50 Del. Laws, c. 339, § ?13; 70 Del. Laws, c. 172, § ?4; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2341
- 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
- Employer: includes all those who employ others unless they are excluded from the application of this chapter by any provision of this subchapter, and if the employer is insured, the term shall include the insurer as far as practicable; employer shall also include the governing body for which employable relief recipients are assigned work under §§ 901-905 of Title 31. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301