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Legislative Mission
The IRMA intergovernmental risk pool was established for the purpose
of insuring its members with reliable protection against human and
financial losses and promoting quality risk management that is
self-directed and professionally managed. In furtherance of IRMA’s
mission, IRMA shall oppose legislation and regulation that would
unreasonably broaden public entity liability and unfairly expose our
customer – the public entities and their respective taxpayers. IRMA
shall promote and work for the adoption of laws and regulations on all
levels of government that encourage a balanced judicial/regulatory
system among plaintiffs and defendants.
To this end, IRMA and its member public entities are committed to use
their resources and considerable influence to affect the following
issues and subject matter:
- To improve the Illinois tort immunity laws for all public entities
in Illinois, and restore the original legislative goals and purposes.
- To promote reasonable changes to the Illinois Workers’
Compensation laws designed to provide fairness and equity for both the
injured worker and public entity employer.
- To support and advocate the establishment of tort caps for
non-economic damage judgments.
- To promote health/safety laws that are fair and reasonable and
actively oppose regulations whose costs far outweigh any rational
benefits derived, and result in undue financial burden to local public
entities and ultimately – the taxpayer.
- To promote investment laws and regulation for public risk pooling
cooperatives that will adhere to "prudent person" standards. The
standard of prudence shall be applied in the context of judging and
managing the overall portfolio results, rather than each type of
individual security, in order to provide reasonable and sound
diversification designed to balance the investments and accept
reasonable investment risk.
- To cooperate with and support other organizations and associations
that share the IRMA Mission Statement and strategies as set forth
herein.
- To educate the public of the costly consequences resulting from
frivolous lawsuits, expensive litigation and unprecedented, exorbitant
jury awards. Not only are these costs ultimately paid for in the form
of higher prices for goods and services and taxes, but erode the
confidence in our judicial system.
- To intervene in reviewing courts’ deliberations vis-à-vis amicus
briefs to bring to the attention of the reviewing court the position
of public entities in Illinois, when it has been determined to be in
the best interest of the Illinois public entities.
- To take all other reasonable and necessary steps to foster and
promote quality public risk management through intergovernmental
pooling.
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