Davis v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal by the State of Illinois, Department of Public Aid (hereinafter “the Department”), from an order adjudicating its lien of $1,028.88 for medical expenditures it had made on plaintiffs behalf and allowing the lien in the reduced amount of $100 as part of the settlement in a personal injury case. The Department contends: (1) that there is no statutory authority for a court to adjudicate a reduction in the Depart-merit’s lien, and (2) that a “petition for an adjudication” and notice to the Department were required prior to any such adjudication.

On February 15, 1968, plaintiff…