Topic:
Medical malpractice and tobacco litigation
(Madigan, D-Chicago; Harmon, D-Oak Park) does three things in the Code of Civil Procedure. (1) Re-enacts and repeals statutory provisions so the text of those provisions conforms to the decisions of the Illinois Supreme Court in Best v. Taylor Machine Works and Lebron v. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital. (2) Caps contingent attorney’s fees in a medical malpractice action at 33 1/3 per cent of all sums recovered. (3) Limits the supersedeas bond requirement for all the appellants collectively in the tobacco settlement to be no more than $250 million. Sent to the Governor.