How many personal injury cases are filed each year in Chicago?
Personal Injury - April 18, 2025
Illinois courts hear tens of thousands of personal injury cases each year. Victims hurt by another party’s negligence are serious about demanding compensation for their losses and suffering. The Chicago personal injury attorneys from Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates have decades of experience handling personal injury claims successfully, and we are ready to put that experience to work for you.
What are personal injury cases?
You file a personal injury claim when you sustain injuries because of someone else’s careless, reckless, or intentional act. As the claimant, you are the plaintiff, and the at-fault party is the defendant. Some common types of personal injury cases include:
- Motor-vehicle crashes: collisions involving cars, motorcycles, trucks, buses, and pedestrians
- Slips or falls: incidents occurring on someone else’s property
- Defective products: injuries caused by poorly designed or malfunctioning products
- Medical malpractice: injuries caused by delayed diagnosis, misdiagnosis, birth injuries, surgical errors
Whatever circumstances prompted your case, the Chicago personal injury attorneys from Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates can provide exceptional and effective representation. We will fight for compensation for your medical expenses, income loss, and other accident-related costs, and for financial recognition of your physical and emotional pain and suffering.
How many personal injury cases are filed each year in Chicago?
The Illinois Courts Statistical Summary provides data on all cases filed with or proceeding through the court system in 2023. The summary reports these numbers for new filings in Cook County for civil cases involving demands for damages:
- 13,107 demanding less than $50,000
- 60,453 demanding more than $50,000
The National Practitioner Data Base (NPDB) tracks the number of Medical Malpractice Payment Reports (MMPR) for every state. Medical malpractice payers use MMPRs to report payments made to satisfy claims against health care practitioners. The report shows 907 MMPRs for 2023-2024.
How many cases settle vs. cases that go to trial?
Personal injury claims are resolved out of court through negotiations resulting in a settlement or through a trial resulting in a verdict. Settlements usually come more quickly than trial verdicts, and our team will fight for a favorable out-of-court resolution. The vast majority of personal injury cases resolve through negotiations.
Sometimes the at-fault party and their representation fail to make fair offers, stall the negotiating process, or use other strategies to put off paying your damages, and your best way forward may be through a trial. We are a team of skilled negotiators and trial attorneys, so you can count on us for superior legal representation in either circumstance.
How much does it cost to file a personal injury lawsuit?
Clients often have concerns about the legal fees involved in pursuing personal injury claims. When you partner with us, you do not have to worry about costs. We operate on a contingency-fee guarantee. This means you pay no upfront costs, and our receipt of payment is contingent on winning the case.
We take care of all filing and legal fees, costs for securing records, expert witness fees, and all other case-related expenses. When your case resolves through a settlement or trial award, we collect a percentage of that compensation as payment.
Our Chicago personal injury attorneys will make sure you have a full understanding of how the payment system works before you enter a legal partnership with us. We value integrity and transparency and will not surprise you with unexpected fees when your case ends.
We are leaders in personal injury law
Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates is known as a premier injury law firm in Illinois. We have secured over $1 billion in settlements and trial verdicts. Call (800) 985-1819 or submit a message to schedule your free case review. Putting your personal injury case in our experienced hands is the right choice.
