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Several years ago my dad got hit by an uninsured driver (they were parked along the street and pulled out, side-swiping my dad's truck).
The driver was not the owner of the car, but neither her or the owner had insurance. Besides the fines, the judge suspended both of their licenses until they paid back the repair costs.
If you were fully insured then generally your insurance company will take care of all of the legal issues. For my dad his insurance company paid for the repairs on his truck (minus the normal deductible my dad paid) until the legal side was taken care of. They (the insurance company) then refunded the deductible and the uninsured driver made payments directly to the insurance company.
Of course all of the above may be a moot point if you just had liability, but I'm not an insurance expert.
In any case you are lucky to have a police report directly stating the at-fault vehicle. My wife got side-swiped a few years back while parked at a gas station pump. The police didn't want to do a report because it was private property so we got all of his driver's license info, insurance car, plate number, etc...but he then disappeared and were (our insurance company) never able to collect anything. Our insurance company paid for repairs minus the deductible (our of our pocket) and tried a couple of collection agencies (our agent was my wife's brother, so they tried really hard)...apparently the guy passed false insurance and license info to us.
A year or so later my wife's car also got hit by a golf ball and left a nice dent on the roof. We stopped and talked to the lady who did it. She gave us all of her insurance info, then her friends starting getting really *****y...still remember that one stating "I can't believe you want to fix that dent, I just would of kept driving......". The car was literally 3 months off the dealer lot when this happened, I so wanted to take a golf ball and throw it against her new Denali leaving a nice dent and say "okay, we're even now"......
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