The Illinois House Judiciary Committee approved legislation this week to change the state's joint provisions and several liability provisions to allow damages to be assessed only to parties still remaining in the case.
Under current law, joint liability is at issue when a party is 25 percent or more at fault.
However, the bill in question, which has strong opposition from insurers, changes current law by allowing the defendants' fault to be determined by the only parties still remaining in the case at the time of the final determination by the court.
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