If you were injured in a car accident in Illinois and think you may be partly at fault, you might assume that means you can’t recover compensation.
But Illinois law recognizes that accidents aren’t always clear-cut. It’s rarely the case that one person is solely responsible for a crash. One driver might be majorly liable, but perhaps you also played a small part.
Illinois follows a legal rule called modified comparative negligence, which allows injured people to recover damages even if they share some blame, as long as their share of responsibility remains below a specific threshold.
Understanding how comparative