Joyce and Pastuovic Governor JB Pritzker has a May 31 deadline to take action on a bill that would allow plaintiffs in lawsuits accusing hospitals, health care providers and other businesses and defendants of personal injuries or wrongful death to collect interest calculated from the time the lawsuit was filed, not just from the time judgment was entered. He can either veto Senate Bill 72, sign it or take no action, in which case the legislation would automatically become law. As reported in March, the state legislature approved a replacement for an earlier bill described as a “gift” for trial lawyers, that would have allowed plaintiffs to collect 9% interest on judgments, using a clock that would begin ticking when an alleged wrongdoer has notice of the injury before a lawsuit is filed.