Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB2946 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/31/2024

                            103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2946 Introduced 1/31/2024, by Sen. Jil Tracy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 735 ILCS 5/2-1115 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115 Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that the prohibition on the recovery of punitive damages in a legal malpractice action includes damages sought as compensatory damages which were assessed against the legal malpractice plaintiff or failed to be obtained by the legal malpractice plaintiff. LRB103 38319 JRC 68454 b   A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2946 Introduced 1/31/2024, by Sen. Jil Tracy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:  735 ILCS 5/2-1115 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115 735 ILCS 5/2-1115 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115 Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that the prohibition on the recovery of punitive damages in a legal malpractice action includes damages sought as compensatory damages which were assessed against the legal malpractice plaintiff or failed to be obtained by the legal malpractice plaintiff.  LRB103 38319 JRC 68454 b     LRB103 38319 JRC 68454 b   A BILL FOR
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2946 Introduced 1/31/2024, by Sen. Jil Tracy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
735 ILCS 5/2-1115 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115 735 ILCS 5/2-1115 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115
735 ILCS 5/2-1115 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that the prohibition on the recovery of punitive damages in a legal malpractice action includes damages sought as compensatory damages which were assessed against the legal malpractice plaintiff or failed to be obtained by the legal malpractice plaintiff.
LRB103 38319 JRC 68454 b     LRB103 38319 JRC 68454 b
    LRB103 38319 JRC 68454 b
A BILL FOR
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  SB2946  LRB103 38319 JRC 68454 b
1  AN ACT concerning civil law.
2  Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3  represented in the General Assembly:
4  Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5  changing Section 2-1115 as follows:

 

103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2946 Introduced 1/31/2024, by Sen. Jil Tracy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
735 ILCS 5/2-1115 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115 735 ILCS 5/2-1115 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115
735 ILCS 5/2-1115 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that the prohibition on the recovery of punitive damages in a legal malpractice action includes damages sought as compensatory damages which were assessed against the legal malpractice plaintiff or failed to be obtained by the legal malpractice plaintiff.
LRB103 38319 JRC 68454 b     LRB103 38319 JRC 68454 b
    LRB103 38319 JRC 68454 b
A BILL FOR

 

 

735 ILCS 5/2-1115 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115



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  SB2946  LRB103 38319 JRC 68454 b