Restore Legislative Intent - Support SB 1296

Big insurance companies are at it again.

The insurance industry is fighting for a legal loophole that allows wrongdoers such as manufacturers of unsafe products, careless construction companies and drunk drivers to skirt their responsibilities when they engage in dangerous practices that hurt or kill people.

For Big Insurance, it’s always about the money, not about justice.

These wrongdoers want to avoid paying their fair share to victims - plain and simple. Even worse, they want to be able to blame other parties not represented, not present in the courtroom, and who are no longer part of the case.

That’s an outrage!

The Illinois General Assembly is considering legislation - Senate Bill 1296 - to close this unintended loophole. This bill makes sure the guilty party is held accountable and the legislature’s original intent will be restored.

Support Senate Bill 1296.

Click here for a detailed analysis of the legislation. (PDF)

SB 1296 Passes Illinois Senate On Tuesday, March 20, the Illinois State Senate passed SB 1296 by a vote of 34-23.

In 1995, in Blake v Hy Ho Restaurant, an Illinois Appellate Court stated that “To read dismissed defendants into section 2-1117 and require that they be apportioned fault after their dismissal would be a gross contortion of the legislative intent. We will not engraft language or attribute a meaning to a statute which the legislature did not include or intend.”