Court Opinion

ID: 9729327
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:32:05.401057+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:56.912882
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE COOK, specially concurring: The statute of repose (735 ILCS 5/13—214.3(c) (West 1996)) applies to this case because no cause of action had accrued before the statute’s effective date, January 1, 1991. Under the statute of repose, a legal malpractice action may not be commenced more than six years after “the act or omission occurred.” A cause of action may be barred under the statute of repose even before the cause of action has accrued. Meyers v. Underwood, 316 Ill. App. 3d 970, 986, 738 N.E.2d 118, 129-30 (2000). The alleged act or omission here occurred at the trial, which was in the 1980s. Plaintiff had a full six years to comply with the statute of repose after it was enacted January 1, 1991, but did not file suit until June 29, 1998. This action is barred by the statute of repose. Statutes of repose are constitutional. Serafin, 284 Ill. App. 3d at 587, 672 N.E.2d at 310.