{"data":{"id":"us-de/18-del.-c.-6821","jurisdiction":"us-de","citation":"18 Del. C. § 6821","heading":"Disciplinary action.","body":"(a) The Commissioner shall forward the name of every health-care provider against whom a settlement is made or judgment is rendered under this chapter to the appropriate agency for licensure or professional registration and examination for review of the fitness of the health-care provider to practice the profession. In each case involving review of a health-care provider’s fitness to practice under this chapter, the agency shall have the power, in appropriate cases, to take the following disciplinary action:\n(1) Censure, public or private;\n(2) Imposition of probation for determinate period;\n(3) Suspension of the health-care provider’s license for a determinate period;\n(4) Revocation of the license; or\n(5) In the instance of institutional or corporate providers, the ordering of temporary or permanent cessation of the particular program, procedure or service resulting in the claim or judgment, and/or the ordering, monitoring and evaluation of corrective action necessary to bring such activity into compliance with contemporary standards.\n(b) Review of the health-care provider’s fitness to practice shall be conducted in accordance with the applicable procedures set forth in Title 16 or 24, or other applicable provisions, and shall include a determination of whether a provider has been shown to be unfit to continue the practice of the profession because of a series of actions presumed to be medical negligence, because of verdicts or settlements against the provider, or because of a single case in which the act or omission is considered to include gross negligence on the provider’s part.","path":["Title 18. Insurance Code","Insurance","CHAPTER 68. Health-Care Medical Negligence Insurance and Litigation","Subchapter IV. Reporting and Review of Claims"],"source_url":"https://delcode.delaware.gov/title18/c068/sc04/index.html#6821","current_through":"2026-08-10 (85 Del. Laws, c. 421, 424)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T23:02:25Z","sha256":"d0199a7d514e13fae4d597c3558210b8e37d2c9978e70a9779a78485ce32afda","source_id":"us-de","stale":true,"prev":"us-de/18-del.-c.-6820","next":"us-de/18-del.-c.-6830"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}