{"id":5658,"date":"2015-11-20T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2015-11-19T22:43:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T04:43:30","slug":"illinois-supreme-court-overturns-appellate-court-decision-setting-the-maximum-amount-of-recovery-allowed-against-a-self-insured-rental-car-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-supreme-court-overturns-appellate-court-decision-setting-the-maximum-amount-of-recovery-allowed-against-a-self-insured-rental-car-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Supreme Court Overturns Appellate Court Decision Setting the Maximum Amount of Recovery Allowed Against a Self-Insured Rental Car Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned the Illinois Appellate Court decision regarding the cap on self-insured rental car companies. The Supreme Court reversed a $600,000 judgment against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enterprise.com\/en\/home.html?cm_mmc=Google-_-Brand-_-E_G_US_SE_TP-999_B_EXM_NTL_EN_US-_-enterprise_rent_a_car\">Enterprise Rent-A-Car<\/a>\u2019s Chicago area\u2019s subsidiary.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court ruled that self-insured rental car companies are liable for a maximum of $100,000 toward all injured parties in a rental car crash.<\/p>\n<p>The decision of the Supreme Court was unanimous. In 2007, a crash in which an Enterprise vehicle was involved, injured at least two individuals. Enterprise paid $75,000 to two of the people involved in the crash. Enterprise argued that it\u00a0had responsibility \u00a0to pay only an additional $25,000 allowed under the cap to the plaintiff.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-supreme-court-overturns-appellate-court-decision-setting-the-maximum-amount-of-recovery-allowed-against-a-self-insured-rental-car-company\/#more-5658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned the Illinois Appellate Court decision regarding the cap on self-insured rental car companies. The Supreme Court reversed a $600,000 judgment against Enterprise Rent-A-Car\u2019s Chicago area\u2019s subsidiary. The Supreme Court ruled that self-insured rental car companies are liable for a maximum of $100,000 toward all injured parties in a rental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126,19,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illinois-supreme-court","category-insurance-claims","category-leg-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Supreme Court Overturns Appellate Court Decision Setting the Maximum Amount of Recovery Allowed Against a Self-Insured Rental Car Company &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned the Illinois Appellate Court decision regarding the cap on self-insured rental car companies. 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