Are Personal Injury Claims Different in Missouri and Illinois? | Burger Law Firm

Are personal injury claims different if I'm in Missouri or if I'm in Illinois, or if I'm in a different County, can you explain that a little bit to me? Yeah. And it's a great question. The answer is yes. And it's mostly each state has its own separate law and we have state courts we also have a federal court overriding system over all of it. So, it more has to do with tort reform, frankly, and the efforts by insurance, the insurance industry to protect its money and keep its money and keep it away from injured people. So for instance, in Illinois, you have two years to file a claim. In Missouri it's five years for an auto case. However, in both of them, you have two years to file a medical malpractice case. However, in both in those states, it's different from a wrongful death case. So the time limit or the statute limitations in which to file a lawsuit is different for different claims, depending on the types of claims and also depending on the injury sustained in those cases. And then the question is, where do you file those cases? There's different venue laws. Can you find the city of St. Louis St. Louis County, Franklin, Jefferson County, and oh, and Madison St. Clair County, a Monroe County where you file in that case and jury pools are different in those cases, those places as well. There's some places like in Illinois with underinsured and uninsured motorist claims against your own insurance company you have though everybody has uninsured motorist coverage, that's an arbitrator case, you can't even really file a case there. It's in an arbitration court. So the time limits are different in the county and then the measure the quantum of damages can be different, okay, so in a wrongful death case in Missouri, you cannot get damages for grief and bereavement. In Illinois you can.