Delaware Code
Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 2314. Defenses unavailable in action for compensation.

In any action instituted by any person to recover damages for personal injury sustained by an employee by accident arising out of and in the course of employment within this State or for death resulting from injury so sustained, it shall not be a defense that:

(1) The injury or death was caused in whole or in part by the want of ordinary or reasonable care of or by the negligence of a fellow employee; or
(2) The employee had either expressly or impliedly assumed the risk of the injury; or
(3) Injury was caused in any degree by the negligence of such employee.

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Delaware Code

Title 19 - Labor

Chapter 23. Workers’ Compensation

Subchapter I. General Provisions

§ 2301. Definitions.

§ 2301A. Industrial Accident Board.

§ 2301B. Hearing officers.

§ 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.

§ 2311. Contractors, subcontractors, independent contractors and lessees of motor vehicles transporting passengers for hire as employers.

§ 2312. Volunteer firefighters treated as State employees; election by volunteer fire companies; revocation; wage as basis for compensation.

§ 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.

§ 2316. Licensed real estate salespersons and licensed associate real estate brokers who are independent contractors.

§ 2317. HAZMAT team members treated as State employees; wage as basis for compensation.

§ 2320. Subpoena of witnesses; oaths; service of process; medical examination and testimony; various fees.