Bill Text: IL SB3148 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends and reenacts provisions of the Civil Practice Article of the Code of Civil Procedure concerning actions on account of bodily injury or death or physical damage to property based on negligence or product liability based on strict tort liability. Provides that the court shall not instruct the jury of the consequence of any findings of fault of any plaintiff or defendant under specified provisions of the Code. Deletes language providing that the court shall instruct the jury in writing that the defendant shall be found not liable if the jury finds that the contributory fault of the plaintiff is more than 50% of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought. In the Section concerning joint liability, deletes language providing that: any defendant whose fault is less than 25% of the total fault attributable to the plaintiff, the defendants sued by the plaintiff, and any third party defendant except the plaintiff's employer, is severally liable for non-medical damages; and any defendant whose fault is 25% or greater of the total fault attributable to the plaintiff, the defendants sued by the plaintiff, and any third party defendants except the plaintiff's employer, is jointly and severally liable for non-medical damages. Adds language providing that: any defendant whose fault is less than 25% of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought by the plaintiff is severally liable for non-medical damages; and any defendant whose fault is 25% or greater of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought by the plaintiff is jointly and severally liable for non-medical damages. Contains applicability provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3148 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3148-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3148 Introduced 2/6/2020, by Sen. William E. Brady SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
735 ILCS 5/2-1107.1 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1107.1
735 ILCS 5/2-1117 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1117
Amends and reenacts provisions of the Civil Practice Article of the Code of Civil Procedure concerning actions on account of bodily injury or death or physical damage to property based on negligence or product liability based on strict tort liability. Provides that the court shall not instruct the jury of the consequence of any findings of fault of any plaintiff or defendant under specified provisions of the Code. Deletes language providing that the court shall instruct the jury in writing that the defendant shall be found not liable if the jury finds that the contributory fault of the plaintiff is more than 50% of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought. In the Section concerning joint liability, deletes language providing that: any defendant whose fault is less than 25% of the total fault attributable to the plaintiff, the defendants sued by the plaintiff, and any third party defendant except the plaintiff's employer, is severally liable for non-medical damages; and any defendant whose fault is 25% or greater of the total fault attributable to the plaintiff, the defendants sued by the plaintiff, and any third party defendants except the plaintiff's employer, is jointly and severally liable for non-medical damages. Adds language providing that: any defendant whose fault is less than 25% of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought by the plaintiff is severally liable for non-medical damages; and any defendant whose fault is 25% or greater of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought by the plaintiff is jointly and severally liable for non-medical damages. Contains applicability provisions.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
reenacting and changing Section 2-1107.1 and by changing
Section 2-1117 as follows:
(735 ILCS 5/2-1107.1) (from Ch. 110, par. 2-1107.1)
(Text of Section WITHOUT the changes made by P.A. 89-7,
which has been held unconstitutional)
Sec. 2-1107.1. Jury instruction in tort actions. In all
actions on account of bodily injury or death or physical damage
to property based on negligence, or product liability based on
strict tort liability, the court shall not instruct the jury of
the consequence of any findings of fault of any plaintiff or
defendant pursuant to Section 2-1116 or 2-1117 in writing that
the defendant shall be found not liable if the jury finds that
the contributory fault of the plaintiff is more than 50% of the
proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is
sought.
The changes to this Section made by this amendatory Act of
the 101st General Assembly apply to causes of action accruing
on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
101st General Assembly.

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(Source: P.A. 84-1431.)
(735 ILCS 5/2-1117) (from Ch. 110, par. 2-1117)
Sec. 2-1117. Joint liability. Except as provided in Section
2-1118, in actions on account of bodily injury or death or
physical damage to property, based on negligence, or product
liability based on strict tort liability, all defendants found
liable are jointly and severally liable for plaintiff's past
and future medical and medically related expenses. Any
defendant whose fault, as determined by the trier of fact, is
less than 25% of the proximate cause of the injury or damage
for which recovery is sought by the plaintiff total fault
attributable to the plaintiff, the defendants sued by the
plaintiff, and any third party defendant except the plaintiff's
employer, shall be severally liable for all other damages. Any
defendant whose fault, as determined by the trier of fact, is
25% or greater of the proximate cause of the injury or damage
for which recovery is sought by the plaintiff total fault
attributable to the plaintiff, the defendants sued by the
plaintiff, and any third party defendants except the
plaintiff's employer, shall be jointly and severally liable for
all other damages.
The changes to this Section made by this amendatory Act of
the 101st General Assembly apply to causes of action accruing
on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
101st General Assembly.

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(Source: P.A. 93-10, eff. 6-4-03; 93-12, eff. 6-4-03.)