{"id":8036,"date":"2022-07-22T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2022-07-18T19:50:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T19:50:52","slug":"cook-county-judge-finds-prejudgment-rule-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/cook-county-judge-finds-prejudgment-rule-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook County Judge Finds Prejudgment Rule Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Circuit Court Judge Marcia Maras has ruled that the prejudgment interest law that went into effect in 2021 is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Under this law, plaintiffs in personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits are able to collect 6% interest against defendants from the time the lawsuit is filed until it is disposed of.\u00a0 All cases challenging the constitutionality of the law were consolidated before Judge Maras.<\/p>\n<p>Her long-awaited ruling, an advisory opinion that does not set precedent, arose from a medical negligence case in the preterm birth of twins.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/cook-county-judge-finds-prejudgment-rule-unconstitutional\/#more-8036\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circuit Court Judge Marcia Maras has ruled that the prejudgment interest law that went into effect in 2021 is unconstitutional. Under this law, plaintiffs in personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits are able to collect 6% interest against defendants from the time the lawsuit is filed until it is disposed of.\u00a0 All cases challenging the [&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":[54,46,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injury","category-civil-procedure","category-illinois-legislation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cook County Judge Finds Prejudgment Rule Unconstitutional &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Circuit Court Judge Marcia Maras has ruled that the prejudgment interest law that went into effect in 2021 is unconstitutional. 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