Action against terrorist for injury to person or property -- Damages
KRS 411.025
in effect411.025. Action against terrorist for injury to person or property -- Damages
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Act of terror" means an activity that: 1. Involves violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law; 2. Appears to be intended to: a. Intimidate or coerce a civilian population; b. Influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or c. Affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and 3. Occurs primarily within the Commonwealth; and
(b) "Terrorist" means a person who commits an act of terror, including a person who acts as an accessory before or after the fact, aids or abets, solicits, or conspires to commit an act of terror or who lends material support to an act of terror.
(2) Any person whose property or person is injured by a terrorist may file a claim for and recover damages from the terrorist.
(3) Any person who files an action under this section is entitled to recover three (3) times the actual damages sustained or fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), whichever is greater, as well as court costs and attorney's fees in the trial and appellate courts if the person prevails in the claim.
(4) A civil action brought under this section is remedial and does not limit any other civil or criminal action provided by law. Civil remedies provided under this section are supplemental and not exclusive.
Effective: July 14, 2018
History: Created 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 111, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2018. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/14/2018). 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 111, sec. 3 provided that this statute as created in Section 1 of that Act shall be known and may be cited as Andy's Law.
Source: Kentucky Legislative Research Commission (legislature.ky.gov)URL: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=47889Fetched: 10/20/2026