In re Schroepfer

This is a decision of an-appeal brought before the Court of Claims from the Victims of Crime Compensation Program. A single commissioner of the victims-of-crime program granted the applicant-appellee, John Schroepfer, an award of economic loss by way of work loss, but denied an award for economic loss by way of allowable expense based upon the collateral-source rule in the Victims of Crime Act. Following an objection filed by the applicant-appellee, a panel of three commissioners reversed the single commissioner’s denial of an award for allowable expense and ordered that an award of…