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The cost of doing business and owning a home or car in Illinois could increase soon if a last-minute amendment from January’s lame-duck session is signed into law.
House Bill 3360 was set to die, but at the 11th hour, Senate President Don Harmon of Oak Park introduced a loaded amendment that will drastically alter civil lawsuits. It passed the House a few days later on January 13 around 3 a.m. and is now before Gov. J.B. Pritzker for his review.
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Excessive litigation already costs Illinois businesses more than $18.9 billion annually. At a personal level, that comes out to a loss of nearly 100,000 jobs across the state and an annual “tort tax” of $761.81 per person due to frivolous lawsuits. In Chicago, that number jumps to $811.13 per person.
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As a business owner of a franchise for nearly two decades, I always appreciated my community and the passion people had for supporting local family-owned businesses.
Most residents understand the positive impacts of small business. Maybe working for a local burger shop or coffee shop was their first job, so the sense of appreciation for a family-owned operation never left them.
Small business creates a substantial number of jobs in any local community and that translates into millions of jobs statewide. So, you would expect that state and local policy makers would do all that they could to protect these job creators, especially during this COVID-19 pandemic.
(The Center Square) â Healthcare providers in Illinois are not only fighting against an ongoing pandemic, but the threat of malpractice and negligence lawsuits connected to thousands of COVID-19 deaths.Â
Healthcare Heroes Illinois, a nonprofit group that advocates on behalf of long-term care providers and hospital workers, is calling on Gov. J.B. Pritzker to reinstate a level of protection from lawsuits connected to COVID-19. Pritzker included a level of immunity in his emergency orders early in the pandemic but allowed them to sunset in June.Â
âFrom the outset of this global health crisis, the first-responders in the field and the doctors and nurses in the ERs, ICUs and skilled nursing facilities didnât flinch at responding to the call of duty to protect their patients, while opportunistic TV lawyers were already drawing up plans to turn the tragedies of this pandemic into their own personal profit centers,â said Healthcare Heroes Illinois spokesman Paul
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(The Center Square) â Healthcare providers in Illinois are not only fighting against an ongoing pandemic, but the threat of malpractice and negligence lawsuits connected to thousands of COVID-19 deaths.
Healthcare Heroes Illinois, a nonprofit group that advocates on behalf of long-term care providers and hospital workers, is calling on Gov. J.B. Pritzker to reinstate a level of protection from lawsuits connected to COVID-19. Pritzker included a level of immunity in his emergency orders early in the pandemic but allowed them to sunset in June.
âFrom the outset of this global health crisis, the first-responders in the field and the doctors and nurses in the ERs, ICUs and skilled nursing facilities didnât flinch at responding to the call of duty to protect their patients, while opportunistic TV lawyers were already drawing up plans to turn the tragedies of this pandemic into their own personal profit centers,â