93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4542

 

Introduced 02/03/04, by Thomas Holbrook

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
735 ILCS 5/2-1115   from Ch. 110, par. 2-1115

    Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning punitive damages in healing art and legal malpractice cases.


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A BILL FOR

 

HB4542 LRB093 19917 LCB 45660 b

1     AN ACT concerning civil procedure.
 
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 any case all cases, whether
9 in tort, contract or otherwise, in which the plaintiff seeks
10 damages by reason of legal, medical, hospital, or other healing
11 art malpractice, no punitive, exemplary, vindictive or
12 aggravated damages shall be allowed.
13 (Source: P.A. 84-7.)