Connecticut Car Accident Settlement Calculator
Estimate a car accident settlement under Connecticut law. The calculator applies this jurisdiction's own comparative fault rule and damages ceilings, and every figure below is the one our verified data holds, with the statute behind it and the date we checked it.
What Connecticut law does to your claim
Three things in state law open a gap between two identical injuries in two different states: how long you have to file, what happens if you were partly at fault, and whether the state puts a ceiling on what a jury can award. Here is what we hold for this one.
Connecticut bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-572h(b)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
None on record means our verified data holds no figure of this kind for this state. It is not a finding that no limit could apply to your claim.
Connecticut car insurance law: minimums, PIP and uninsured motorist coverage
What Connecticut's provisions say about the insurance behind a car accident claim, in their own words, with the copy read named under each.
Connecticut: Minimum liability coverage
“Each automobile liability insurance policy shall provide insurance in accordance with the regulations adopted pursuant to section 38a-334 against loss resulting from the liability imposed by law, with limits not less than those specified in subsection (a) of section 14-112, for damages because of bodily injury or death of any person and injury to or destruction of property arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a specific motor vehicle or motor vehicles within any state, territory, or possession of the United States of America or Canada.”
“[…] proof of financial responsibility to satisfy any claim for damages by reason of personal injury to, or the death of, any one person, of twenty-five thousand dollars, or by reason of personal injury to, or the death of, more than one person on account of any accident, of at least fifty thousand dollars, and for damage to property of at least twenty-five thousand dollars.”
The provision begins before this quote, and the part before it is not quoted here.
“The owner of a private passenger motor vehicle required to be registered in this state shall provide and continuously maintain throughout the registration period security in accordance with sections 38a-334 to 38a-343, inclusive.”
A minimum is a floor on what a policy must carry. It is not a limit on what a claim is worth, and it does not tell you what the at-fault driver carries.
Connecticut: No-fault, personal injury protection and the right to sue
No personal injury protection requirement, and no limit on a suit for pain and suffering, was found in the provisions read for this page (Conn. Gen. Stat. chapter 700, including § 38a-371).
Connecticut: Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage
“Each automobile liability insurance policy shall provide insurance, herein called uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, in accordance with the regulations adopted pursuant to section 38a-334, with limits for bodily injury or death not less than those specified in subsection (a) of section 14-112, […]”
The provision continues past the end of this quote, and the rest is not quoted here.
“Notwithstanding any provision of this section, each automobile liability insurance policy issued or renewed on and after January 1, 1994, shall provide uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage with limits for bodily injury and death equal to those purchased to protect against loss resulting from the liability imposed by law unless any named insured requests in writing a lesser amount, but not less than the limits specified in subsection (a) of section 14-112.”
“No such written request for a lesser amount shall be effective unless any named insured has signed an informed consent form […]”
The provision continues past the end of this quote, and the rest is not quoted here.
Connecticut: Medical payments coverage
No medical payments coverage requirement was found in the provisions read for this page (Conn. Gen. Stat. chapter 700).
What partial fault costs you in Connecticut
The same claim, fracture with surgery, several months of recovery, run through the calculator above four times, with nothing changed but the share of fault assigned to the claimant. The numbers are the engine's output, not an editorial claim about what these cases are worth.
One case, run through the calculator above four times with only the claimant's share of fault changed, under Connecticut law. No coverage ceiling is applied, because we would be inventing the at-fault party's policy. These shares illustrate the rule; they are not an estimate of your own fault.
Every Connecticut deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Connecticut periods in our verified data, with the statute behind each one. A deadline is the outside limit, never a target, and other rules can shorten it.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-584·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorConn. Gen. Stat. § 52-584·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorConn. Gen. Stat. § 52-555·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorConn. Gen. Stat. § 31-294c·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorConn. Gen. Stat. § 52-584·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorConn. Gen. Stat. 52-584 requires filing within 2 years of discovering the injury, and never more than 3 years after the act or omission. We publish the 2-year discovery period.
Conn. Gen. Stat. 52-584·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the dog bite calculatorConnecticut against the rest of the country
Every count below is read from our state-law data across all 51 jurisdictions, so it moves when the data does. What you will not find here is an average settlement figure: the only one we could compute is a model, and a model presented as a measurement is not a fact.
- 24 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply modified comparative negligence with a 51% bar, and Connecticut is one of them.
- Its 2 years to file is the same as the most common deadline in the country, which 25 jurisdictions use. Across the 51 jurisdictions the deadline for this case type runs from 1 year to 6 years.
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and Connecticut is not among them, so an estimate here is not held down by a ceiling we hold.
Comparisons are drawn from the legal levers that actually move a case value, not from closed-case data, which we do not hold. See the full methodology