{"id":46241,"date":"2022-10-06T17:37:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T22:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powerrogers.com\/?page_id=46241"},"modified":"2024-03-06T05:37:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T11:37:27","slug":"illinois-wrongful-death-caps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.powerrogers.com\/wrongful-death\/illinois-wrongful-death-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Wrongful Death Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Illinois Wrongful Death Caps<\/h1>\n<p><strong>In Illinois, there are no caps on damages.<\/strong>\u00a0In 2005, Illinois enacted a law that placed caps on noneconomic damages in\u00a0<a href=\"\/medical-malpractice\/\">medical malpractice<\/a>\u00a0cases \u2013 both\u00a0<a href=\"\/wrongful-death\/\">wrongful death<\/a> and injury. The law was overturned just five years later because the court determined it violated the Illinois Constitution\u2019s separation of powers clause. The court ruled that decisions regarding damages should be reserved for judges and juries. In this five-year period, there was a $500,000 cap on noneconomic damages for verdicts against doctors and a $1 million cap on verdicts against hospitals.<\/p>\n<h2>Fair And Just Compensation<\/h2>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"\/wrongful-death\/illinois-wrongful-death-act-740-ilcs-180-1\/\">Illinois Wrongful Death Act<\/a>\u00a0allows \u201cfair and just compensation\u201d to be awarded to\u00a0<a href=\"\/wrongful-death\/next-of-kin-in-illinois-wrongful-death-cases\/\">next of kin<\/a> or a surviving spouse in whatever amount the jury determines. At <span class=\"nap-item nap-item--name\">Power Rogers<\/span>, we fight for our clients in wrongful death cases so that they can recover fair and just compensation after the loss of their loved one.<\/p>\n<h2>Our Experience In Wrongful Death Cases<\/h2>\n<p>Our law firm has extensive experience in wrongful death cases, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The largest personal injury award for a single family in Illinois \u2013 <strong>$100 million<\/strong>\u00a0in a wrongful death\/trucking collision case<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<strong>$39.9 million settlement<\/strong>\u00a0in a wrongful death\/trucking collision case<\/li>\n<li><strong>$21 million settlement\u00a0<\/strong>in a case involving delayed intubation, improperly monitored oxygen, and delayed\u00a0<a href=\"\/birth-injury\/c-section-delivery-errors\/\">cesarean<\/a>. Decedent died after being in a coma for 12 weeks, and her son was left permanently brain-damaged and unable to care for himself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can see a\u00a0<a href=\"\/about\/our-success-record\/\">full list of our recoveries here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If your loved one was wrongfully killed, we invite you to contact our Chicago wrongful death lawyers today for a free case evaluation where you can learn your legal rights and options.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Wrongful Death Caps In Illinois, there are no caps on damages.\u00a0In 2005, Illinois enacted a law that placed caps on noneconomic damages in\u00a0medical malpractice\u00a0cases \u2013 both\u00a0wrongful death and injury. The law was overturned just five years later because the court determined it violated the Illinois Constitution\u2019s separation of powers clause. The court ruled that decisions regarding damages should be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4247,"featured_media":0,"parent":46234,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powerrogers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powerrogers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powerrogers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerrogers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerrogers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerrogers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46241\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powerrogers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powerrogers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}