What happened to you at The Pavilion was not okay, and a jury has already said so.
The Pavilion on West Church Street in Champaign. The adolescent unit, the children's unit, the adult floors. If you were a patient there, any year, and something was done to you that the staff should have stopped, then yes. This is about you. In March 2024 twelve people in Champaign County listened to what the hospital knew and awarded one former patient more money than any single person has ever been awarded in Illinois. That verdict is public. So is what came out at the trial.
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This applies to you no matter what
- It was another patient, not a staff member. That is exactly what the 2024 case was. The hospital was found responsible because it put the two of them on the same hall and nobody was watching the cameras.
- You told a nurse or a tech and they didn't believe you, or wrote it down as something else. The girl in the 2024 case was seen afterward by a staff member who accepted the first explanation offered. The jury heard that.
- You were a minor. Illinois has no filing deadline for childhood sexual abuse anymore, and for anything that happened at The Pavilion after 2014 that rule is clean.
- You were an adult patient. The clock is shorter and it is still worth twenty minutes to find out where you are on it.
- You have a record now, or a diagnosis, or years you would rather not explain. None of that changes what the hospital owed you.
- You're a parent, a sibling, a former staff member who saw something. Reach out anyway.
The Pavilion record: the verdict, the reduction, the settlement, and when
We didn't write what's below. A Champaign County jury did, and Judge Jason Bohm, and the reporters who sat through the trial, and we link to every one of them. We don't add to it.
March 28, 2024
The jury in case No. 2021 L 000176 returned $535 million: $60 million for what was done to a 13-year-old girl on December 5, 2020, and $475 million to punish the hospital. A 16-year-old patient had attacked her on the co-ed adolescent unit after he and another patient covered the hallway cameras with toothpaste, and for seventy-five minutes nobody on staff noticed. The evidence included the unit's staffing levels, boys and girls housed together against what the hospital told families, and what The Pavilion knew about the other patient's history. It was the largest award to a single plaintiff in Illinois history. Missouri Lawyers Media.
October 10, 2024
Judge Bohm cut the punitive figure to $120 million, leaving $180 million in total, and refused the hospital a new trial. He wrote that he did not reduce a jury's award by over a quarter of a billion dollars lightly. The News-Gazette.
2025
The case was reported settled before any appeal was decided, for an amount that was not made public. Reporting on the trial record describes at least twelve documented attacks of the same kind at The Pavilion between 2015 and 2020, and a nurse who testified she had raised staffing concerns for years. The hospital is open today and is owned by Universal Health Services. MindSite News.
We checked this on September 11, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from 2025. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.
Who can be held responsible in a Pavilion lawsuit
The hospital, first. A psychiatric unit that admits children takes on the duty to keep them apart from patients it knows are dangerous, to watch the halls it promised to watch, and to believe a child who says something happened. The 2024 jury found The Pavilion failed all three, and the reduced award still stands at $180 million.
Then the company behind it. The Pavilion belongs to Universal Health Services, one of the largest hospital companies in the country, and its own filings told investors about this verdict. That matters for a simple reason: a judgment is only worth what the defendant can pay, and this one can.
Your deadline: the Illinois statute of limitations for what happened at The Pavilion
If you were under 18, Illinois took the deadline off in 2014. For childhood sexual abuse there is no statute of limitations (735 ILCS 5/13-202.2), and for anything at The Pavilion in 2014 or later that is the whole answer. For earlier years the rule reaches back only to claims that had not already run out under the old law, which is why we ask when you were there.
If you were an adult patient, the clock is shorter. Illinois gives two years for most injury claims, and a lawyer will need to look at when the clock started for you, which is not always the day it happened. That is a conversation, not a form.
No cap on damages. Since 2010 Illinois has had no ceiling on what a jury can award for pain and suffering against a hospital, which is why $535 million was possible.
Your situation still qualifies even if
- Nobody in your family knows.
- You were told it was your imagination, or your medication.
- You think being a psychiatric patient makes you a bad witness. The girl in the 2024 case was a psychiatric patient. The jury believed her.
- It was years ago and you've built a life since.
- You live in another state now. Plenty of Pavilion patients came from out of state to begin with.
Pavilion programs covered
The inpatient units for children, adolescents, adults and older adults at 809 West Church Street · the residential treatment program · the on-campus school. A different UHS hospital in Illinois or Missouri? The questions still work. Answer them and say where on the call.
Questions people are asking
It was another patient, not staff. Does that count?
That is the 2024 case exactly. The hospital's job was to keep patients safe from each other, and the jury found it didn't.
Does it cost anything?
No. Nothing here does. If there is a case, it is on contingency; if there isn't, you've lost twenty minutes and gained an answer.
Who sees your form
Kerim Eravci · Survivor Advocate · Not a lawyer
I was a victim, and I waited. Not because I didn't know what happened to me (I knew every day), but because I'd decided it was over, mine to carry, nobody's business. When I finally went looking for a lawyer, the answer came back in two words I'd never thought about: statute of limitations. My time had run out while I was busy getting through it.
What that has cost me since is a long story, and I'll tell you the whole thing in private, if you want it. The short version is the reason my name is on this page: I'm here to help people do what I wish I'd done, which is find out where you stand while the door's still open.
I'm not a lawyer. I read what you send, I call you once, on your terms, and nothing gets filed unless you say so. Ask sooner than I did.
Kerim Eravci is not an attorney. He's a survivor.
What happens next. Three steps, nothing more until you say so.
- You answer 6 questions. Nothing is filed. Nothing starts.
- A survivor calls you, once. Not a robot, not a call center. Someone who has been where you are.
- You decide. You find out your options. If you want to stop there, you stop there.
How this works
ME2 Survivors Alliance protects the heart. Licensed Illinois attorneys do the legal work. We are not lawyers and we don't pretend to be.
You never pay a dollar
Every case is on contingency. There is no charge for the call, the review, or the case. The firm is paid only out of a recovery, and if there is no recovery you owe nothing.