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Free truck accident claim tools for Chicago, IL

Check the statute of limitations on your claim and see a rough range for your damages. Both tools show the full result. No sign-up.

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Two instrumentsIllustration
2 yearsto file

The statute of limitations, on a clock

low to highyour losses, added up

Your damages, as a rough range

The statute of limitations on a clock, and your damages as a rough range.

Two tools you can use today.

Each one answers a question people ask on the first call. Use them from a hospital bed or a kitchen table. Nothing is sent to us unless you choose to send it.

Deadline checker

The statute of limitations is the legal deadline to file a lawsuit. In Illinois the limitations period for a personal injury claim is usually 2 years, and 1 year when a city, a county or the CTA is a defendant. Answer 3 questions and see your dates, the days left, and the evidence clocks that run out sooner.

  • 3 questions, about a minute
  • Every rule printed with its citation
  • Dates shown at once, free
Open the deadline checker
What the checker draws for youIllustration
  1. Day 0The crash
  2. 6 monthsDriver logs may be deleted
  3. 1 yearDeadline against a public body
  4. 2 yearsStatute of limitations ends
The court deadline is the last mark. Evidence can be gone long before it.

Case value estimator

Damages are the money a claim asks for. Enter your medical bills and lost income, the economic damages, and pick how serious the injury is. The tool adds non-economic damages for pain and the loss of a normal life, applies Illinois modified comparative negligence, and shows a rough range.

  • 5 answers, updates as you type
  • The formula shown in full
  • An illustration, never a promise
Open the case value estimator
How the estimate is builtIllustration
Economic damages
Non-economic damages
Less your share of the fault

Above 50% at fault, Illinois law leaves nothing. The tool shows that too.

2 kinds of damages are added. Your share of the fault is taken off.

What a tool can tell you, and what it cannot.

A tool is honest about rules and arithmetic. It cannot weigh evidence. That is the part a lawyer does.

It can tell you the rule.

Which statute of limitations applies, how a share of fault changes a recovery, how economic damages are added up. These are published rules, and we print them.

It cannot tell you the outcome.

Negligence and liability are proved, not calculated. The standard is a preponderance of the evidence: more likely true than not. Policy limits, liens and the other side's arguments all move a settlement or a verdict.

Why the first answer is wideIllustration, not to scale
A rule of thumb
With your medical records and pay history
With the truck's data and the insurance policies
A rule of thumb gives a wide range. Each set of records narrows it.

Three more tools on the drawing board.

These are planned, not live. They are listed here so you know what is coming, and none of them will sit behind a form.

  • Preservation letter builder

    Lists the records a carrier must keep after a crash, so spoliation of evidence, the loss or destruction of proof, can be challenged.

    In progress

  • Settlement breakdown

    Shows where a settlement goes: the 40% contingency fee, case costs, medical liens, and what reaches you.

    In progress

  • Hours-of-service check

    Compares a driver's day with the federal limits: 11 hours driving inside a 14-hour window.

    In progress

Questions about the tools.

Are these tools free, and do I have to give my details?

They are free and nothing is held back. Each tool shows its full result on the page. If you want a lawyer to check the result against your facts, you can leave a name and a phone number afterward. That part is optional.

Is a result from a tool legal advice?

No. A tool applies published rules or a rule of thumb to the answers you give. It does not know your facts, and using it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Liability, negligence and damages are decided on evidence, and the plaintiff, the injured person who brings the claim, carries the burden of proof.

What is the statute of limitations for a truck accident in Illinois?

The statute of limitations is the legal deadline to file a lawsuit. For most personal injury claims in Illinois it is 2 years from the crash (735 ILCS 5/13-202). A claim against a city, a county or the CTA usually has 1 year (745 ILCS 10/8-101; for the CTA, 70 ILCS 3605/41). The deadline checker works out which limitations period applies to you.

Why does the estimator show a range and not one number?

Because damages are not set by a formula. Economic damages can be added up from bills and pay records. Non-economic damages, such as pain and loss of a normal life, are decided by a jury or negotiated in a settlement. Modified comparative negligence can then reduce the total by your share of the fault (735 ILCS 5/2-1116).

What a tool is for
  1. Your answers
  2. A rough answer, in the open
  3. A lawyer checks it against the evidence
A tool gets you a rough answer in a minute. The call is where it is tested.

A tool takes a minute. A free case review takes one call, and our contingency fee is 40% of the recovery only if we win.

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Sources

  • Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, 735 ILCS 5/13-202 (statute of limitations for personal injury: 2 years)
  • Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, 745 ILCS 10/8-101 (1 year for claims against a local public entity)
  • Metropolitan Transit Authority Act, 70 ILCS 3605/41 (1 year for injury claims against the Chicago Transit Authority)
  • Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, 735 ILCS 5/2-1116 (modified comparative negligence; recovery barred above 50% fault)
  • Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, 49 CFR 395.8(k) (driver records of duty status kept for 6 months)
  • Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, 49 CFR 395.3 (hours of service: 11 hours driving within a 14-hour window)
  • Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 1.5(c) (contingency fee agreements must be in writing)

Tell us what happened. We will tell you what happens next.

Call, or send the form. A lawyer, not an intake service, calls you back within the hour. Free, confidential, no obligation.

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  1. NowYou call or send the form.
  2. Within the hourA lawyer calls you back.
  3. The day you retain usThe preservation letter goes out.

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