In recent years Gov. George E. Pataki has raised the caps on victim compensation and extended coverage under the law to stepparents, stepgrandparents and stepsiblings of victims.

This e-pub provides information about OVC's partnership with state agencies to provide victim compensation and victim assistance to individuals.

What is victim compensation?

State legislatures were forced to confront numerous political pressures and lobbies, and to balance volunteer liability protection against victim compensation.

It is also remarkably self-defeating in two vital areas: manufacturer liability and victim compensation.

The Republicans resisted, but the Democrats made their vote for the bailout contingent on inclusion of victim compensation.

In England and Wales, it is not possible to defeat a claim under contributory negligence and therefore completely deny the victim compensation.

Only Connecticut has a judicial-based victim advocacy program where victim assistance and victim compensation are actually run out of our judicial branch.

The agency has already agreed to sue for full victim compensation, as the law allows.

Criminal law differs from civil law, whose emphasis is more on dispute resolution and victim compensation than on punishment.