Update: Comments from John P. Scanlon, president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association were added to the 15th through 19th paragraphs.A majority of states across the country have a legal limit on how much patients can get for suffering caused by faulty medical care.Illinois in particular has veered back and forth on the issue, capping noneconomic damages three separate times in three decades. Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and other tort-reform advocates are pushing to make it four.Part of the logic behind the cut-off …