Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 19 > Chapter 23 - Workers' Compensation

• Active: means either of the following:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B

• Actuarial certification: means a written statement by a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, or other individual acceptable to the Commissioner, that a small employer carrier is in compliance with the provisions of § 7205 of this title, based upon an examination and including a review of the appropriate records and the actuarial assumptions and methods used by the small employer carrier in establishing premium rates for applicable health benefit plans. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Advanced-stage cancer: means a diagnosis by a board certified physician in the medical specialty appropriate for the type of cancer diagnosed that there are 1 or more malignant tumors characterized by the uncontrollable and abnormal growth and spread of malignant cells with invasion of normal tissue and that there is metastasis and:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• affiliated: means any entity or person who directly or indirectly through 1 or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by, or is under common control with, a specified entity or person. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Affiliation period: means a period of time not to exceed 2 months (3 months for late enrollees) during which a health maintenance organization does not collect premiums and coverage issued is not effective. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Alarm: means a security alarm system signal that is created by the activation of a security alarm system. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicant: shall mean :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7103

• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney: as used in this chapter , refers to the attorney-in-fact of a reciprocal insurer. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 5705
• Base premium rate: means , for each class of business as to a rating period, the lowest premium rate charged or that could have been charged under a rating system for that class of business by the small employer carrier to small employers with similar case characteristics for health benefit plans with the same or similar coverage. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Basic health benefit plan: means a lower cost health benefit plan developed pursuant to § 7211 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Basic health services: means a range of services including at least the following: usual physician services, hospitalization, laboratory, x-ray, emergency and preventive services and out-of-area coverage. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6403
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board: means the Industrial Accident Board. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
• Board: shall mean the State Board of Dentistry and Dental Hygiene established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Board: means the board of directors of the program established pursuant to § 7210 of this title [repealed]. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Bona fide association: means , with respect to health insurance coverage offered in Delaware, an association which:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202

• Cancer: means a malignant tumor characterized by the uncontrolled and abnormal growth and spread of malignant cells and invasion of normal tissue. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B
• Carrier: means any entity that provides health insurance in this State. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Case characteristics: means demographic or other objective characteristics of a small employer that are considered by the small employer carrier in the determination of premium rates for the small employer, provided that claim experience, health status and duration of coverage shall not be case characteristics for the purposes of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Certificate: shall mean , for the purposes of this chapter, any certificate issued under a group long-term care insurance policy, which policy has been delivered or issued for delivery in this State. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7103
• Certified managed care organization: means a managed care organization which has been issued a certificate of authority under this title. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6403
• Child: includes stepchildren and adopted children and children to whom the deceased stood in loco parentis if members of the decedent's household at the time of the decedent's death, and includes posthumous children but not married children. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Class of business: means all of a carrier's business unless more than 1 class is established pursuant to § 7204 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• College or university: shall mean any nonprofit college in the State which is accredited by the appropriate regional accrediting agency. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6601
• Commissioner: shall mean the Insurance Commissioner of this State. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7103
• Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of this State. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Committee: means the Health Benefit Plan Committee created pursuant to § 7211 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Compensable occupational diseases: includes all occupational diseases arising out of and in the course of employment only when the exposure stated in connection therewith has occurred during employment. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Creditable coverage: means , with respect to an individual, health benefits or coverage provided under any of the following:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202

• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Death in the line of duty: shall mean any death of a covered person under this chapter, arising out of and in the course of that person's assigned duty, including all normal and special assignments as ordered by his or her superiors or assignments undertaken while acting as a law-enforcement officer under rules, directions or regulations promulgated by the appropriate employing authority, within or outside of normal duty hours; provided, however, that death of a covered person occurring while that person is on active duty shall create a rebuttable presumption that such death was a death in the line of duty and that the burden of proof shall be on the employer to demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that such death was not a death in the line of duty. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6601
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dental assistant: shall mean any person not licensed to practice dentistry and/or dental hygiene in this State, who aids a dentist in the performance of generalized tasks, including chair-side aid, clerical work, reception, radiography, dental laboratory work, and any other such tasks delegated by the dentist. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Dental hygienist: shall mean a person who is qualified to practice dental hygiene as prescribed in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Dentist: shall mean a person who is qualified to practice dentistry as prescribed in the chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Department: means the Department of Labor. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
• Department: means the Delaware Department of Insurance. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6403
• Dependent: includes all persons other than the injured employee who are entitled to compensation under the elective schedule set forth in this chapter, and wherever the context requires it, includes the personal representatives and the surviving spouse of the deceased, and guardians of infants or trustees for incompetent persons. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dependent: means a spouse, a child under the age of 26 years, and an unmarried child of any age who is medically certified as totally disabled and dependent upon the parent. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Dependent children: shall include stepchildren, adopted children and children to whom the deceased stood in loco parentis, if members of the decedent's household at the time of death. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6601
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Division: shall mean the State Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Eligible employee: means an employee who works on a full-time basis and has a normal work week of 30 or more hours. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Established geographic service area: means a geographic area, as approved by the Commissioner and based on the carrier's certificate of authority to transact insurance in this State, within which the carrier is authorized to provide coverage. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executive officers: means the president, any vice-president, secretary, treasurer or any other executive officer elected and empowered by the board of directors in accordance with the charter and the regularly adopted bylaws of the corporation. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
• Fire company: means a company in the State comprised of volunteer firefighters, fire police, paid employees of volunteer fire companies, volunteer ambulance companies, volunteer ambulance company members, paid employees of volunteer ambulance companies, and firefighters who are a part of an all-paid force. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B
• Fire department: means a department in the State comprised of volunteer firefighters, fire police, paid employees of volunteer fire companies, volunteer ambulance companies, volunteer ambulance company members, paid employees of volunteer ambulance companies, and firefighters who are a part of an all-paid force. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B
• Fire instructor: means an individual who actively teaches and holds a certificate to teach firefighter training courses, issued by and employed by the Delaware State Fire School. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B
• Fire marshal: means a person who is an official responsible for enforcing fire regulations or investigating fires in the State under § 6612 of Title 16. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B
• Fire police: means a member of a fire company who has taken the oath to perform police duties at fires, fire drills, and any emergencies or functions covered by the fire company. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fit test: means the self-contained breathing apparatus fit test conducted yearly pursuant to requirements of 29 CFR § 1910. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Full age: means the age of 18 years or older. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Group long-term care insurance: shall mean a long-term care insurance policy which is delivered or issued for delivery in this State and issued to:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7103

• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Health benefit plan: means any hospital or medical expense policy or certificate, hospital or medical service corporation contract, health maintenance organization or health service corporation subscriber contract or any other similar health contract, including a high deductible medical expense policy used in conjunction with a medical savings account, subject to the jurisdiction of the Commissioner available for use, offered or sold to an individual in the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Health status-related factor: means any of the following factors:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202

• Health-care services: means any service included in the furnishing to any individual of medical or dental care, or hospitalization or incidental to the furnishing of such care or hospitalization, as well as the furnishing to any person of any and all other services for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing or healing human illness, injury or physical disability. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6403
• Hearing officer: means a hearing officer appointed pursuant to § 2301B of this title. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
• Immediate family: means a parent, spouse, child or sibling of a sole proprietor or partner. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Index rate: means , for each class of business as to a rating period for small employers, the arithmetic average of the applicable base premium rate and the corresponding highest premium rate. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Infant: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Insurance carrier: means any insurance corporation, mutual association or company or interinsurance exchange which insures employers against liability under this chapter or against liability at common law for accidental injuries to employees. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
• Ionizing radiation: means any particulate or electromagnetic radiation capable of producing ions directly or indirectly in its passage through matter. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
• Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
• Late enrollee: means an eligible employee or dependent who requests enrollment in a group health benefit plan following the initial enrollment period during which such individual is entitled to enroll under the terms of the health benefit plan, if such initial enrollment period is a period of at least 30 days. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Long-term care insurance: shall mean any insurance policy or rider advertised, marketed, offered or designed to provide coverage for not less than 12 consecutive months for each covered person on an expense incurred, indemnity, prepaid or other basis, for 1 or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance or personal care services, provided in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7103
• Managed care organization: means a public or private organization, organized under the laws of any state, which:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6403

• Medical care: means amounts paid for:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202

• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• New business premium rate: means , for each class of business as to a rating period, the lowest premium rate charged or offered or which could have been charged or offered by the small employer carrier to small employers with similar case characteristics for newly issued health benefit plans with the same or similar coverage. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Oath: includes affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and "sworn" includes affirmed; and the forms shall be varied accordingly. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Paid firefighter: means a person who has been approved by the Delaware Fire School as a firefighter, as evidenced by an annual fit test, and who is faithfully and actually performing service in the protection of life and property from fire or other emergency, accident, or calamity in connection with which the service of the fire department or company is required. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B
• Paramedic: means a person who is employed by a county paramedic service as defined in § 9802(7) of Title 16, has been approved by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians or the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), maintains Delaware certification, and is faithfully and actually performing service in the State. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Permanent disability: shall mean a permanent physical condition arising out of and in the course of actions in the line of duty, but shall not include permanent disability from an injury or disease, which, although aggravated in the line of duty, was not originally sustained in the line of duty; provided, however, that said permanent disability must be sufficient to disable the covered firefighter so that the firefighter is unable to do the work normally required for the job or employment which he or she held at the time he or she was disabled. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701
• Person: shall mean a corporation, company, association or partnership, as well as an individual. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plan of operation: means the plan of operation of the program established pursuant to § 7210 of this title [repealed]. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Policy: means a contract between the insurer and the insured which determines the claims which the insurer is legally required to pay based on the benefits outlined in § 6702B of this title. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B
• Policy: shall mean , for the purposes of this chapter, any policy, contract, subscriber agreement, rider or endorsement delivered or issued for delivery in this State by an insurer; fraternal benefit society; nonprofit health, hospital or medical service corporation; prepaid health plan; health maintenance organization or any similar organization. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7103
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Premium: means all moneys paid by a small employer and eligible employees as a condition of receiving coverage from a small employer carrier, including any fees or other contributions associated with the health benefit plan. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Pretrial conference: A meeting of the judge and lawyers to discuss which matters should be presented to the jury, to review evidence and witnesses, to set a timetable, and to discuss the settlement of the case.
• Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Program: means the Delaware Small Employer Reinsurance Program created by § 7210 of this title [repealed]. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• qualifying existing coverage: means benefits or coverage provided under:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202

• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Rating period: means the calendar period for which premium rates established by a small employer carrier are assumed to be in effect. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Reinsuring carrier: means a small employer carrier participating in the reinsurance program pursuant to § 7210 of this title [repealed]. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• returning from: shall include the time encompassed by the firefighters', auxiliary members' or volunteer ambulance and rescue company members' entrance into their personal vehicle or company emergency vehicle in response to the alarm or emergency call until their first disembarkation from their personal vehicle at their home, place of employment or other location. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6601
• returning from: shall include the time encompassed by the firefighter's, ladies auxiliary members' or volunteer ambulance and rescue company members' entrance into their personal vehicle or company emergency vehicle in response to the alarm or emergency call until their first disembarkation from their personal vehicle at their home, place of employment or other location. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701
• Risk-assuming carrier: means a small employer carrier whose application is approved by the Commissioner pursuant to § 7209 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Security alarm system: is a s defined in § 1201 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Small employer: means any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association that is actively engaged in business that, on at least 50% of its working days during the preceding calendar quarter, employed no more than 50 eligible employees, the majority of whom were employed within this State. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Small employer carrier: means a carrier that offers health benefit plans covering eligible employees of 1 or more small employers in this State. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• sponsors and operators: shall mean The Pilots' Association for the Bay and River Delaware and the Ports of Philadelphia Maritime Exchange. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2401
• Standard health benefit plan: means a health benefit plan developed pursuant to § 7211 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unhealthy lifestyle choices: means smoking or maintaining excessive weight, blood pressure or cholesterol, other than due to organic causes that are being treated by a physician, as those conditions or actions may be more fully defined by regulation by the Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• Volunteer firefighter: means a firefighter who is faithfully and actually performing service in the protection of life and property from fire or other emergency, accident, or calamity in connection with which the service of the fire department or company is required. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 6701B
• Waiting period: means , with respect to a group health plan and an individual who is a potential participant in or beneficiary of the plan, the period that must pass with respect to the individual before the individual is eligible for benefits under the terms of the plan. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 7202
• watch officer: means any river pilot, licensed as such by any state, or any person otherwise certified by the sponsors and operators, and who is maintaining a vessel traffic watch at any designated vessel information traffic station serving the water within the Delaware River and Bay and their tributaries and approaches, including the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal or any other water within the territorial limits of the State. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2401