Revised Law Green-Lights Restitution to Insurers

Published for NC Criminal Law on August 18, 2016.

For many years North Carolina law has prohibited insurers from receiving restitution directly from criminal defendants. That prohibition will end on December 1, 2016. Tucked away in S.L. 2016-78, a bill amending various insurance laws, is a provision repealing G.S. 15A-1340.37(d). That subsection, described in this prior post, said that “[n]o third party shall benefit ... Read more

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