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Estimate what a slip-and-fall injury claim might be worth, by state. Enter your medical bills and losses and answer a few plain questions about the fall — the tool weighs how provable the owner's fault is and your share of fault under your state's rules.
⚠ A rough estimate, not a prediction or an offer.
No tool can predict a settlement, and slip-and-fall cases turn on proving the owner was at fault. This shows the factors and a wide range — consult a premises-liability attorney about your case.
There is no formula that predicts a settlement. Most start from the same rough math — add up the economic damages (medical bills, lost wages), then estimate pain and suffering as a multiple of the medical bills. But slip-and-fall is different from a car crash: fault is not presumed. You have to prove the property owner knew or should have known about the hazard and failed to fix it or warn you. The weaker that proof, the lower the value — and a posted warning sign cuts against you twice (it shows the owner warned, and it makes the hazard "open and obvious").
Your state's rules then decide a lot: its comparative-negligence rule (in a handful of states, being even 1% at fault bars the whole claim), whether an open-and-obvious hazard defeats the claim, whether the owner owes any duty for naturally accumulated ice and snow, and — if you fell on public property — a short notice-of-claim deadline. Pick your state above to see how those apply.