The Illinois Supreme Court said legislation authorizing civil actions after the close of statutory limits for occupational disease claims applies to illnesses discovered after the law was enacted in 2019.
After the high court in 2015 held that state law effectively precludes any cause of action for all occupational diseases after 25 years, lawmakers added Section 1.1 to the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act allowing civil actions for any injury or death that is otherwise time-barred. The new law in SB 1596 took effect immediately when Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed it in May 2019.
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