It’s their money, and they want it now
A new state law aims to force slow-moving defendants in settlements to quickly pay up, but in today’s legal and medical environments, it’s often the third-party payers in injury and death cases who lengthen the time between settlement and payment.
The prompt-payment law, Public Act 98-548, imposes interest penalties on defendants who settle cases but don’t give the money to the …
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