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A bill that will increase the amount of interest personal injury plaintiffs can collect if successful in court easily passed the House early in the morning Wednesday, 69-42.
House Bill 3360, sponsored by Rep. Jay Hoffman (D-Belleville) and Rep. Marcus Evans, Jr. (D-Chicago), will lengthen the pre-judgment interest accrual period to when an alleged wrongdoer has notice of the injury versus when a plaintiff files suit. Because of the state s statute of limitations law, that could add as much as two years of interest at 9 percent a year owed by defendants.
The bill was among a few controversial proposals rammed through just before the legislature s lame duck session ended Wednesday and before members elected in November were seated.
Democrats vote to end legislative investigation of Madigan Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch, a Hillside Democrat, speaks at the end of a Special Investigating Committee into alleged misconduct of House Speaker Michael Madigan as Rep. Grant Wehrli, a Naperville Republican, looks on in the foreground. The committee s Democrats voted to end the investigation Monday after just three meetings in four months. Photo courtesy of Blueroomstream.com
Updated 12/14/2020 7:39 PM
After just three hearings in four months, Democrats on the special committee probing House Speaker Michael Madigan s alleged misconduct and role in a bribery scheme involving ComEd voted Monday to end their investigation.
SPRINGFIELD After just three hearings in four months, Democrats on the special committee probing House Speaker Michael Madigan’s alleged misconduct and role in a bribery scheme involving Commonwealth Edison voted Monday to end their investigation.
Throughout the combative three-hour hearing, the three House Republicans and three Democrats clashed repeatedly over the rules of procedure, disagreed about the facts contained in the federal court documents and levied accusations of political stunts and a “kangaroo court.”
The House Democratic members Reps. Chris Welch, of Hillside, Natalie Manley, of Joliet, and Elizabeth Hernandez, of Cicero voted no on a motion, presented by Manley, that Madigan engaged in conduct unbecoming of legislator.
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