A person may not use his or her insurance policy to cover restitution costs imposed as part of a criminal sentence, an unanimous en banc Superior Court panel has ruled.
The decision, reached in Brethren Mutual Insurance v. Cynthia McKernan, et al., PICS Case 08-1937 (Pa. Super. Nov. 18, 2008) Panella, J. (7 pages), reasons that restitution is imposed to “help rehabilitate a convict by impressing upon him, in some degree, the scope of the damage inflicted by his criminal conduct.”
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