IllinoisIllinois law snapshot
- Diminished value (third-party)Recoverable — Repair cost + difference in post-repair value (Trailmobile, 1973).
- Your own policy (first-party)Not recoverable — "Like kind and quality" doesn't include intangible lost value (Sims, 2006).
- Loss of useTypically pursued against the at-fault carrier as the reasonable rental value of a comparable vehicle for your repair downtime — whether or not you rented.
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How we help Illinois drivers
- Total loss disputes — we audit the insurer's ACV report line by line and rebuild it with true local-market comparables. If the numbers don't move, we invoke your policy's appraisal clause.
- Diminished value — a signed expert report documenting what the accident history costs your car in the Illinois market. Flat fee, free screening first.
- Loss of use — day-by-day documentation of your downtime at local rental rates for your vehicle class.