Which Illinois patient-care filing limits apply when the claimant was a minor?

Identify the licensed physician, dentist, registered nurse or hospital and whether the claim arises from patient care.

Establish accrual and the claimant’s age at accrual. Age only on the alleged treatment date does not answer the statutory test.

Preserve the alleged act, omission or occurrence, date of birth, disability facts and any applicable concealment or sexual-misconduct provision.

1. Identify the licensed physician, dentist, registered nurse or hospital and whether the claim arises from patient care.
2. Establish accrual and the claimant’s age at accrual. Age only on the alleged treatment date does not answer the statutory test.
3. Preserve the alleged act, omission or occurrence, date of birth, disability facts and any applicable concealment or sexual-misconduct provision.
4. The ordinary subsection (b) branch combines an eight-year event boundary with the twenty-second birthday. Do not add eight years to discovery or assume eight years always remain. Separately assess the stated statutory exceptions and disability regime before applying counting or closed-day provisions to any resulting boundary.
5. Commence the properly classified patient-care action and preserve the birth, accrual, care-event and exception evidence supporting the selected regime.

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

Fictitious comparison. One minor’s eight-year care-event anniversary falls before the twenty-second birthday. Another’s birthday occurs first. Adding eight years alone overlooks the latter claimant’s earlier ordinary boundary.

The care event, minority at accrual, birthday and disability regime require multiple facts. A one-input eight-year preset cannot determine the applicable boundary.

Disability already present at accrual

Subsection (c) addresses legal disability other than minority present at accrual and postpones the limitations period until removal.

Disability arising after accrual

Subsection (d) stays the limitations period for qualifying later disability but expressly does not invalidate the section’s repose provisions.

Express exceptions must be considered

Subsection (b) expressly excepts Sections 13-215 and 13-215.1. Do not omit the latter sexual-misconduct provision or infer it applies from a label alone.

The 1987 transition is historical

The text preserves a specific three-year allowance from July 20, 1987 for qualifying claims affected by that amendment. It is not a fresh three-year period for current claims.

• 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 licensed physician, dentist, registered nurse or hospital and whether the claim arises from patient care.
• Establish accrual and the claimant’s age at accrual. Age only on the alleged treatment date does not answer the statutory test.
• Preserve the alleged act, omission or occurrence, date of birth, disability facts and any applicable concealment or sexual-misconduct provision.
• Subsection (c) addresses legal disability other than minority present at accrual and postpones the limitations period until removal.
• Subsection (d) stays the limitations period for qualifying later disability but expressly does not invalidate the section’s repose provisions.
• Subsection (b) expressly excepts Sections 13-215 and 13-215.1. Do not omit the latter sexual-misconduct provision or infer it applies from a label alone.
• The text preserves a specific three-year allowance from July 20, 1987 for qualifying claims affected by that amendment. It is not a fresh three-year period for current claims.
• Commence the properly classified patient-care action and preserve the birth, accrual, care-event and exception evidence supporting the selected regime. 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.