104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB2627 Introduced 3/4/2025, 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. LRB104 12627 JRC 23307 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB2627 Introduced 3/4/2025, 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. LRB104 12627 JRC 23307 b LRB104 12627 JRC 23307 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB2627 Introduced 3/4/2025, 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.
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LRB104 12627 JRC 23307 b
A BILL FOR
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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:
6 (735 ILCS 5/2-1115) (from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115)
7 Sec. 2-1115. Punitive damages not recoverable in healing
8 art and legal malpractice cases. In all cases, whether in
9 tort, contract or otherwise, in which the plaintiff seeks
10 damages by reason of legal, medical, hospital, or other
11 healing art malpractice, no punitive, exemplary, vindictive or
12 aggravated damages shall be allowed. This prohibition on the
13 recovery of punitive damages in a legal malpractice action
14 includes damages sought as compensatory damages which were
15 assessed against the legal malpractice plaintiff or failed to
16 be obtained by the legal malpractice plaintiff.
17 (Source: P.A. 84-7.)
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB2627 Introduced 3/4/2025, 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.
LRB104 12627 JRC 23307 b LRB104 12627 JRC 23307 b
LRB104 12627 JRC 23307 b
A BILL FOR
735 ILCS 5/2-1115 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115
LRB104 12627 JRC 23307 b
SB2627 LRB104 12627 JRC 23307 b