California Court of Appeal

Juvenile court's order requiring a juvenile ward to pay direct victim restitution that included the cost of medical treatment the victim received as a member of Kaiser California North is affirmed as the reasoning in People v. Duong, which held that victim restitution ordered against adult offenders under Penal Code section 1202.4 may include amounts billed for medical services provided by a health maintenance organization (HMO) even when the victim is an HMO member not required to pay for those medical services, applies equally to direct victim restitution ordered in wardship cases under Welfare and Institutions Code section 730.6.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/23/2010
• Published 04/23/2010

Judges

• NEEDHAM, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Martin S. Kaye, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Christina vom Saal, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Michael Allen under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.