Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 20 > Chapter 1 > Subchapter II - Department of Military Affairs

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affordable Care Act: means the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 42 U. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 8701
• 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.
• Assessment: means any payment required to be made under § 8703 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 8701
• Board: means the Industrial Accident Board. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 101
• Carrier: means any entity that provides health insurance in this State. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 8701
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 8701
• Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 8603
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Delaware Department of Insurance. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 8701
• Department: means the Department of Labor. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 101
• Department: means the Department of Insurance. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 8603
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Employer: includes any person, excepting those provided for in subsection (b) of this section, acting directly or indirectly in the interest of any employer in relation to any employee but shall not include the United States or the State or any political subdivision thereof. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 101
• 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.
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Information security program: means the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards that a licensee uses to access, collect, distribute, process, protect, store, use, transmit, dispose of, or otherwise handle nonpublic information. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 8603
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Licensee: means a person who is licensed, authorized to operate, or registered, or required to be licensed, authorized, or registered, under the insurance laws of this State. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 8603
• National Defense Act: means an act of Congress, entitled, "An Act for making further and more effectual provisions for the national defense, and for other purposes" approved by the President, June 3, 1916, and any and all acts amendatory and supplementary thereto. See Delaware Code Title 20 Sec. 102
• 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.
• Person: means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, statutory trust, business trust, legal representative or any organized group of persons. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 101
• Person: means as defined in § 102 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 8603
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Program: means the Delaware Health Insurance Individual Market Stabilization Reinsurance Program created by § 9903(g) of Title 16. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 8701
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Secretary of Labor: shall mean the Secretary of Labor or the Secretary's authorized designee, provided, that any such delegation of authority is consistent with Chapter 85 of Title 29. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 101
• 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.
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• subsidiaries: shall include , in addition to those such corporations where the insurer owns a majority of their stock, those corporations formed or acquired by an insurer where it owns less than a majority of such corporation's voting stock due to the laws of a foreign national which require the insurer to own less than a majority of the voting stock of such subsidiary insurance corporation if it is to operate in that nation. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 1313
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Unit: shall mean any part of the Delaware National Guard designated a "unit" by order of the Adjutant General. See Delaware Code Title 20 Sec. 102
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302