Which filing limits apply to Illinois local-public-entity patient-care claims?

Identify the local public entity or public employee and whether the injury or death claim arises from patient care.

Establish actual knowledge, what reasonable diligence would reveal and any written notice. Select the earliest applicable date.

Separately establish the alleged act, omission or occurrence causing the injury or death and the applicable statutory edition.

1. Identify the local public entity or public employee and whether the injury or death claim arises from patient care.
2. Establish actual knowledge, what reasonable diligence would reveal and any written notice. Select the earliest applicable date.
3. Separately establish the alleged act, omission or occurrence causing the injury or death and the applicable statutory edition.
4. The two-year period begins at the earliest of the three stated knowledge or notice dates. The four-year outside period begins at the alleged act, omission or occurrence. A later selected discovery date cannot replace earlier reasonable discovery or written notice, and the two-year component alone does not establish compliance with the four-year boundary.
5. Commence the correctly classified action and preserve care records, knowledge and notice evidence, defendant status and the comparison of the applicable boundaries.

No computed date is published. Establish the applicable statutory periods and then check their governing counting and closed-day provisions separately.

Fictitious comparison. Two claimants report the same discovery date. One received written injury notice earlier; the other did not. Their two-year starting events can differ even before the separate four-year comparison.

Earliest knowledge or notice and a separate care event supply two competing boundaries. One discovery input cannot determine both.

A contract label does not avoid the stated category

Subsection (b) covers the described patient-care injury or death action whether based on tort, breach of contract or otherwise.

Ordinary local-public-entity claims remain separate

Subsection (a) assigns one year to its ordinary category and expressly excludes actions described in subsection (b). Establish patient care rather than selecting the longer period from defendant status alone.

The 2003 applicability qualification remains express

Subsection (d) applies the amendment to pending or later actions subject to its vested-right and past-transaction qualifications. Historical applicability cannot be inferred from a current filing date alone.

• This source guide computes no date and does not determine whether the required facts are established.
• Preserve the operative edition, actual documents and relevant court orders. Historical applicability requires its own review.

• Identify the local public entity or public employee and whether the injury or death claim arises from patient care.
• Establish actual knowledge, what reasonable diligence would reveal and any written notice. Select the earliest applicable date.
• Separately establish the alleged act, omission or occurrence causing the injury or death and the applicable statutory edition.
• Subsection (b) covers the described patient-care injury or death action whether based on tort, breach of contract or otherwise.
• Subsection (a) assigns one year to its ordinary category and expressly excludes actions described in subsection (b). Establish patient care rather than selecting the longer period from defendant status alone.
• Subsection (d) applies the amendment to pending or later actions subject to its vested-right and past-transaction qualifications. Historical applicability cannot be inferred from a current filing date alone.
• Commence the correctly classified action and preserve care records, knowledge and notice evidence, defendant status and the comparison of the applicable boundaries. File with the proper clerk in the required format. Rule 9 ordinarily requires civil electronic filing, subject to its exceptions and exemptions. Rule 9(f) ordinarily requires submission before midnight in the court time zone unless a statute, rule or actual order specifies a different time. A submission on a closed clerk day ordinarily receives the next open-day stamp. Preserve the actual electronic file mark, receipt and any filing-relief order. Filing and service are distinct acts.