§ 25-21,248.Terroristic threats; action authorized.

Section 25-21,248 turns a criminal conviction into the foundation for a civil claim. It applies to a broad set of potential plaintiffs — an individual, a partnership, a firm, a limited liability company, a corporation, a company, a society or association, the state, or any state department, agency, or subdivision, along with any other public or private entity. Any of them, if aggrieved by the actions of a person convicted of making terroristic threats under the criminal statute the section cites, has a cause of action against that person.

The recovery reaches loss or damage resulting from the underlying conduct that led to the conviction, plus reasonable costs and attorney’s fees. Tying the civil action to a completed conviction gives the plaintiff a settled factual predicate: the criminal case has already established that the defendant engaged in the threatening conduct, which narrows what the civil case needs to prove about the defendant’s wrongdoing.

By writing in reasonable costs and fees as part of the recoverable damages, the Legislature made clear this is not an ordinary tort claim measured only by compensatory loss. It gives victims of terroristic threats — whether individuals, businesses, or government bodies — a path to recoup the practical cost of pursuing the wrongdoer in civil court, not only the underlying loss itself.