Seatbelt Issues

Illinois has enacted laws requiring drivers and front-seat passengers to wear seatbelts. 625 ILCS 5/12-603.1(a). In some states, if you are injured in an accident, but you were not wearing your seatbelt at the time of the collision, insurance companies and their defense lawyers will attempt to argue that you would not have been injured – either not at all or significantly less so – if you were properly buckled in. Illinois law, however, does not allow a defendant to use a plaintiff's failure to wear a seatbelt as a limit on liability. 625 ILCS 5/12-603.1(c).

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