Are your Illinois leads exclusive or shared?

Exclusive. Each lead is delivered to one firm and never resold, re-routed, tiered, or recycled into aged inventory. Shared leads look cheaper per unit, but at a 2 to 5 percent conversion rate they cost more per signed case than an exclusive lead converting at 10 to 15 percent.

$300M+Client Settlement Value

133,000+Qualified Leads Delivered

15+Years in Legal Marketing

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Illinois MVA Leads for Law Firms — Since 2009

Illinois MVA Leads, Screened for Every Defendant Who Can Pay

Illinois puts no threshold between your claimant and a recovery — so the money question is never whether the case qualifies. It is how many parties are on the hook. We identify every recoverable defendant, and start both limitations clocks, before the lead reaches your intake desk. Chicago through the Metro East.

25%The Joint Liability Line

1 YrDram Shop Clock Tracked

100%Exclusive, Never Shared

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Exclusive Illinois Car, Truck & Motorcycle Accident Leads,
Matched to Your Ideal Client Profile

In Illinois, the value of a file often depends on who else can pay: the 25% line under 735 ILCS 5/2-1117 decides whether a defendant is jointly liable, and a dram shop claim runs on its own one-year clock. Add the 51% modified comparative fault bar and the venue differences between Cook County and downstate, and no two firms buying Illinois leads want the same claimant.

Over the last 15 years, we've refined our MVA lead generation process to deliver Illinois law firms highly qualified, ready-to-intake claimants - screened for every recoverable defendant before they reach you. If a lead doesn't match your criteria, we replace it free.

Every campaign is delivered the way your intake team actually works - as web leads, live transfers, or fully signed MVA retainers - so Illinois car, truck and motorcycle accident cases arrive ready for the stage of your funnel that needs them.

How claimants get qualified

Statewide Coverage

Popular Illinois MVA Locations

County-level availability changes weekly because exclusivity is real. Cook and DuPage close fastest.

Animated map of Illinois over the Chicago skyline with an accident scene, showing statewide MVA lead coverage

Chicago & Cook County

Cook

Chicago, Cicero, Evanston, Oak Park, Skokie, Des Plaines, Berwyn, Oak Lawn, Orland Park, Tinley Park, Mount Prospect, Arlington Heights, Schaumburg, Palatine, Hoffman Estates

Collar Counties

DuPage · Lake · Will · Kane · McHenry

Aurora, Naperville, Joliet, Elgin, Bolingbrook, Waukegan, Wheaton, Downers Grove, Crystal Lake, Elmhurst, Lombard, Glen Ellyn

Metro East

Madison · St. Clair · Monroe

Belleville, Edwardsville, Granite City, Alton, O'Fallon, Collinsville, East St. Louis, Glen Carbon, Wood River

Northern & Central Illinois

Winnebago · Peoria · McLean · Sangamon · Champaign · Rock Island

Rockford, Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, Champaign-Urbana, Springfield, Decatur, Moline, Rock Island, DeKalb, Kankakee, Ottawa

Southern Illinois

Jackson · Williamson · Jefferson · Adams · Effingham

Carbondale, Marion, Mount Vernon, Quincy, Effingham, Centralia, Harrisburg, Murphysboro

Interstate Corridors

Flagged separately on delivery

I-90, I-94 (Dan Ryan & Kennedy), I-55 (Stevenson), I-57, I-80, I-88, I-290 (Eisenhower), I-294 Tri-State — disproportionate commercial-vehicle traffic, and disproportionately where the second defendant with real limits comes from

Delivery Options

Three Ways to Receive Your Illinois MVA Leads

Every firm's intake capacity is different. Choose the stage where you want Illinois car, truck and motorcycle accident cases to land - or mix delivery types across Chicago, the collar counties, Rockford and the Metro East as your docket grows.

Option 01

Exclusive Web Leads

Pre-screened Illinois motor vehicle accident claimants delivered in real time and exclusive to your firm.

No IntakePre-Screened

Screened for every recoverable defendant - plus your custom criteria
Pushed straight into your case management system
Exclusive - never shared with competing firms

Best for: firms with an in-house intake team that want volume and full control of the conversation.

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Option 02

Live Transfers

Our non-incentivized intake specialists qualify the Illinois accident victim by phone, then warm-transfer the call directly to your team.

Intake handled by usQualification

Claimant qualified before the handoff
Live conversation while intent is highest
No speed-to-lead gap for competitors to fill

Best for: firms that want an attorney or case manager speaking with every claimant first.

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Full-Funnel

Signed MVA Retainers

We handle qualification, documentation, and signature under your firm's agreement - the case arrives signed and ready to work.

Intake handled by usSigned Case

Retainer executed under your firm's agreement
Police report, treatment, and insurance details verified
Minimal intake hours on your side

Best for: firms that want signed cases on the docket, not leads to chase.

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735 ILCS 5/2-1117

Why a Defendant at 8% Fault Can Still Carry Your Entire Medical Bill

Illinois runs modified joint and several liability, and the mechanics reward defendant-hunting in a way almost no other state does.

Diagram of the Illinois 25 percent joint and several liability line under 735 ILCS 5/2-1117 showing how defendants above and below the threshold are liable for damages

The line that decides who pays for everything. Above 25%, a single solvent defendant can be reached for the entire recovery.

< 25%

Severally Liable Only

A defendant under the line is liable only for its own proportionate share, and only of the non-medical damages. On paper, a minor defendant looks like a minor recovery.

25% or More

Jointly & Severally Liable for All Damages

Cross the line and that defendant is on the hook for the plaintiff's entire recovery, whatever the other parties can or cannot pay. Find one solvent defendant above 25% and the full judgment is collectible from them alone.

↓ And then the provision that changes the arithmetic ↓

The Medical-Expense Carve-Out

Every defendant liable to any extent is jointly and severally liable for all medical expenses.

The statute pulls past and future medical and medically related expenses out of the proportionality rule entirely. Five percent, eight percent — it does not matter. If a party is found liable at all, the plaintiff's whole medical bill can be collected from them.

So in a catastrophic Illinois file, where medical specials dwarf everything else, a minor defendant carrying a real commercial policy is not a footnote. That defendant can carry the case. The 25% line protects defendants far less than defendants expect it to — and that is precisely why a second defendant is worth finding even when their share of blame looks trivial.

One wrinkle that cuts the other way, and we screen for it. The 25% is measured against the total fault attributable to the plaintiff, every defendant sued, and any third-party defendants except the plaintiff's employer — which means the claimant's own share sits in that denominator. A defendant who looks dominant among two co-defendants can slip under 25% once comparative fault is added in. Settling defendants and the plaintiff's employer are counted for comparative fault but excluded from the joint-and-several calculation, with the remainder recalculated proportionally, per Ready v. United/Goedecke Servs., 232 Ill. 2d 369 (2008). That is why we capture the claimant's fault posture and the defendant count on the same call. In Illinois they are not separate questions.

The Deadline Nobody Tracks

Two Clocks, Not One

Every vendor selling Illinois leads watches the two-year limitations period. Fine. It is the wrong number to be watching alone — and the second clock runs out twice as fast.

Years

Negligence claim against the driver

735 ILCS 5/13-202

The deadline everyone knows and every lead record shows. Two years from the date of the crash, tolled for minors. This is the clock your intake team is already watching.

Year

Dram shop claim against the establishment

235 ILCS 5/6-21

Half the window, on a claim that frequently carries more collectible coverage than the driver does. It closes quietly, and nothing in a standard lead record would tell you it happened.

What that looks like on a real file

Month 12 — dram shop defendant lost

Month 14 — lead delivered

Month 24

An alcohol-involved crash delivered to your intake at fourteen months looks entirely healthy. Ten months of runway left, injuries documented, liability clear. The dram shop defendant died four months earlier. Nobody noticed, because nobody was tracking that clock — and the file that reaches you is quietly worth a fraction of what the same file was worth at month ten.

Why the dram shop defendant matters so much here. Illinois has one of the broadest dram shop statutes in the country. Under 235 ILCS 5/6-21, a licensee that sells or gives liquor causing someone's intoxication is liable to anyone that person injures in Illinois. It is strict liability — your claimant does not have to prove the establishment was careless. And unlike the vast majority of states, Illinois does not condition liability on serving a minor or someone already visibly intoxicated. Any sale that causes the intoxication is enough, and the statute reaches the licensee and the owner or lessor of the premises.

In a state where the at-fault driver may be carrying $25,000, that is a second defendant with a commercial policy behind it. So every Illinois lead we deliver carries two dates and two countdowns: the crash date against the two-year negligence deadline, and — wherever alcohol is indicated anywhere in the file — that same date against the one-year dram shop deadline, flagged by urgency.

$90,411.55 Per injured person — dram shop cap, on or after Jan 20, 2026

$110,503 Loss of means of support or loss of society

Dram shop damages are capped, and the caps adjust every January by CPI-U as determined by the Illinois Comptroller — the 2026 figures reflect a 2.68% increase. That cap is exactly why the dram shop claim is a supplement, not a substitute. It will not carry a catastrophic file alone. Stacked on a 25/50 driver policy, it can nearly quadruple what is available — but only if somebody identified it inside twelve months.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything your firm needs to know before launching an Illinois MVA campaign with Injury Case Claims.

Cost depends on how the lead is delivered - exclusive web lead, live transfer or signed retainer - along with the counties you target and how deep the screening goes. We quote against your exact criteria and run the cost-per-signed-case math with you before you buy. Illinois should be priced by county rather than as one flat statewide rate — Cook County and southern Illinois carry very different acquisition costs and very different settlement postures.

One year from the date of the crash under 235 ILCS 5/6-21 — half the two-year window for the negligence claim against the driver. This is the deadline most lead buyers never see coming, because an alcohol-involved lead at fourteen months still looks healthy on the main claim while the dram shop defendant is already gone. Every alcohol-indicated lead we deliver carries that clock separately.

They adjust annually by CPI-U, determined by the Illinois Comptroller and published by January 31. For judgments and settlements on or after January 20, 2026, the cap is $90,411.55 per injured person and $110,503 for loss of means of support or loss of society. Because the recovery is capped, dram shop works as a supplement to the claim against the driver rather than a replacement — which is exactly why both defendants need identifying early.

Yes. Illinois requires uninsured motorist bodily injury coverage at 25/50 minimum, and it cannot be waived — so there is always a UM floor behind an Illinois claimant, unlike states where UM is rejectable in writing. Underinsured motorist coverage is different: insurers must offer it, but it is not mandatory. Since Illinois liability minimums are only 25/50/20 and many drivers carry exactly that, whether your claimant bought UIM is often the difference between a claim and a case. We screen for it.

Exclusive. Delivered to one firm, never resold, re-routed, tiered, or recycled into aged inventory. Shared leads look cheaper per unit, but at a 2–5% conversion rate they cost more per signed case than an exclusive lead converting at 10–15% — and a shared Illinois lead has not been screened for a second defendant.

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✓ Both Limitations Clocks Tracked on Every File

✓ Free Replacement if a Lead Doesn't Match Your Criteria

✓ 133,000+ Leads Delivered Since 2009

✓ Exclusive — Leads Are Never Resold or Recycled

✓ TCPA, HIPAA & ABA Compliant

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Illinois MVA Leads, Screened for Every Defendant Who Can Pay

Exclusive Illinois Car, Truck & Motorcycle Accident Leads,
Matched to Your Ideal Client Profile