-- While lawsuit-filing rates in most of Illinois are at a 40-year low, they remain high in Cook and Madison counties due, in part, to asbestos cases brought by out-of-staters, a report released Tuesday by tort-reform advocates says.
The 14-page report from the Illinois Civil Justice League, which has long argued that too much litigation hurts the business environment, compares all 102 counties in Illinois by lawsuits filed per 1,000 residents.
Combined, it found 99 counties had 1.2 lawsuits per thousand residents in 2013 - the lowest figure since 1974.
But the rate in Madison, which hugs St. Louis, was 8.2 per thousand, the state's highest rate. Cook, Illinois' most populous county, had a rate of four per thousand….
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