Illinois Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

Four of Illinois' High Court justices have been asked to withdraw from hearing an appeal involving the high profile law firm of Corboy & Demetrio.

The family of a Georgia woman who was killed in an auto accident in 1995, is suing Corboy & Demetrio alleging they mishandled a lawsuit brought on behalf of the women's two children.

The motion states that Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald, Justices Anne Burke, Charles Greeman and Robert Thomas, were all recipients of donations from some members of the Corboy as well as two of their experts in the car crash case.

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The Illinois State Supreme Court will decide on a ruling by a trial judge in 2007 which invalidated the state's caps on non-economic jury awards to $500,000 for physicians and $1million for hospitals.

The Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments on November 13 in a consitutional challenge of the 2005 law.

According to the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the "one-size-fits-all" cap is unfair to patients who suffered from injury due to the malpractice of a doctor or a hospital.

Limits in medical malpractice cases and personal injury cases were thrown out in 1997 and 1976.

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