§ 4301. Liability of witnesses for failure to appear or testify. If any person, duly summoned by process to attend as a witness before any court, justice of the peace, or other officer, lawfully authorized to issue the same, without reasonable excuse, fails to attend, according to the direction of such process; or attending refuses […]
§ 4302. Competency to testify. No child under the age of 10 years may be excluded from giving testimony for the sole reason that such child does not understand the obligation of an oath. Such child’s age and degree of understanding of the obligation of an oath may be considered by the trier of fact […]
§ 4311. Delaware Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act. (a) Short title. — This section may be cited as the “Delaware Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act.” (b) Definitions. — In this section: (1) “Foreign jurisdiction” means a state other than Delaware. (2) “Foreign subpoena” means a subpoena issued under authority of a court of […]
§ 4317. Admissibility of accommodation payments for personal injury; effect on statute of limitations. No advance payment or partial payment of damages made by any person or his or her insurer as an accommodation to an injured person or on such person’s behalf to others or to the estate or dependents of a deceased person, […]
§ 4318. Compassionate communications. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Health care provider” means any person licensed or certified by the State of Delaware to deliver health care services, including, but not limited to, any physician, coordinated care organization, hospital, health care facility, dentist, nurse, optometrist, podiatrist, physical therapist, psychologist, chiropractor or pharmacist and […]
§ 4319. Confidential communications involving first responders. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Critical incident” means a situation or incident which, during the course of his or her duties, causes, or may cause, a first responder to experience unusually strong negative emotional or physical stress. “Critical incident” includes, but is not limited to, any […]
