There is hereby created within the Department of Labor the classified full-time position of workers' compensation specialist. The specialist shall assist unrepresented injured employees by providing information so that such employees can understand, assert and protect their rights under Part II of this title. In addition, the specialist may assist the Department in expediting the processing of petitions. However, assistance provided under this section shall not include representing claimants in hearings or offering legal advice.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 23. Workers’ Compensation
Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 2301A. Industrial Accident Board.
§ 2301C. Workers' compensation specialist.
§ 2301D. Annual review of Industrial Accident Board Case management.
§ 2302. Wages; definition and computation; valuation of board and lodging.
§ 2303. Territorial application of chapter.
§ 2304. Compensation as exclusive remedy.
§ 2305. Exemption from liability prohibited; exception.
§ 2306. Applicability — Employers.
§ 2307. Applicability — Domestic servants and farm laborers.
§ 2308. Applicability — Executive officers; sole proprietors and partners.
§ 2309. Applicability — State, counties and political subdivisions.
§ 2310. Applicability to persons engaged in interstate or foreign commerce.
§ 2313. Record and report of injuries by employers; penalty; admissibility as evidence.
§ 2314. Defenses unavailable in action for compensation.
§ 2315. Compensation to illegally employed minors.
§ 2317. HAZMAT team members treated as State employees; wage as basis for compensation.