November 2004 - Restitution

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="04a085a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Kreiner & Peters Co., L.P.A.</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kreiner Peters Co., L.P.A."><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="December 2004 Subrogation under Legisla"><U>December 2004 - Subrogation under Legislative Scrutiny</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="November 2004 Lawson"><U>November 2004 - Lawson</U></A>   |   <B>November 2004 - Restitution</B>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="August 2004 Rental"><U>August 2004 -  Rental</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="February 2002 ERISA"><U>February 2002 - ERISA</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="November 2001 ERISA"><U>November 2001 - ERISA</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="November 2001 Evidence"><U>November 2001 - Evidence</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="June 2001 Intentional Acts"><U>June 2001 - Intentional Acts</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="May 2001 Fiduciary"><U>May 2001 - Fiduciary</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="April 2001 ERISA provisions"><U>April 2001 - ERISA  provisions</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="January 2001 ERISA"><U>January 2001- ERISA</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="2000 ERISA Fiduciary"><U>2000 - ERISA Fiduciary</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="2000 Medical Payments"><U>2000 - Medical Payments</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="2000 ERISA"><U>2000 - ERISA</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04bd2e83.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>November 2004 - Restitution</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>NOVEMBER 2004</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>OHIO COURTS MAY NO LONGER ORDER RESTITUTION TO THIRD PARTIES AS PART OF CRIMINAL SENTENCING</B></div> <bR> <div>           Ohio Courts may no longer require that a criminal defendant be required to pay restitution to third parties (including subrogated insurers) as part of the defendant's criminal sentence. </div> <bR> <div> The new version of Ohio Revised Code § 2929.18 which went into effect on June 1, 2004 provides that “If the court imposes restitution, the court shall order that the restitution be made to the <B>victim</B> in open court…” and further states, “the amount the court orders as restitution shall not exceed the amount of <B>economic loss</B> suffered by the <B>victim</B> as a direct and proximate result of the commission of the offense.”  This is to be contrasted with the former version of Ohio Revised Code § 2929.18 which provided that a restitution order “may include a requirement that reimbursement be made to <B>third parties</B> for amounts paid to or on behalf of the victim…”</div> <bR> <div>      As a result, subrogated insurers who previously had a practice of relying on criminal restitution orders to recover payments will want to amend this practice.  Since they will not be able to rely on the criminal restitution order, it is important that subrogated insurers put these matters into litigation so that a civil judgment may be obtained.  Additionally, because many of these “criminal acts” that give rise to subrogation claims involve intentional acts, subrogated insurers need to be aware of Ohio's one year statute of limitations for damages caused by intentional acts. </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>