Illinois Personal Injury Lawyers

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Illinois law provides that a personal injury consists of a person being physically or emotionally injured, or a person's property being damaged. Illinois personal injury law allows people to be compensated for damages due to another person's intentional actions, carelessness, negligence, or recklessness. Personal injury law in Illinois is also called tort law. Tort laws govern situations in which someone harms another or something belonging to that person.

In an Illinois personal injury lawsuit there can be one defendant or numerous defendants depending on the facts of the particular case. For example, if you are rear ended on the expressway, most likely the only defendant would be the driver that hit you. However, if your child was sent on a field trip with their school to a museum and fell through a recently repaired floor, you may have a case against the school, the museum, the repair company or other parties.

Damages in Illinois personal injury cases usually consist of payment for medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering and other losses. There is no magic formula as to what a case is worth and every case is different. In most cases the money paid out for a settlement comes from an insurance company. In other words, if you are a passenger in a friend's car and they lose control of the vehicle which results in an injury to you, while you would technically be suing your friend, in almost every instance all of the money paid out would come directly from the insurance company.