Louisiana Car Accident Settlement Calculator
Estimate a car accident settlement under Louisiana 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 Louisiana law does to your claim
Four things decide most of the 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.
Act 423 of 2024 (La. Civ. Code art. 3493.1) set a 2-year liberative prescription for delictual actions arising on or after July 1, 2024. Claims that arose before that date generally remain under the former 1-year rule.
La. Civ. Code art. 3493.1·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Louisiana uses pure comparative fault.
La. Civ. Code art. 2323·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.
What partial fault costs you in Louisiana
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 Louisiana 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 Louisiana deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Louisiana 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.
Act 423 of 2024 (La. Civ. Code art. 3493.1) set a 2-year liberative prescription for delictual actions arising on or after July 1, 2024. Claims that arose before that date generally remain under the former 1-year rule.
La. Civ. Code art. 3493.1·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the personal injury calculatorLa. Rev. Stat. 9:5628 requires filing within 1 year of the act or of discovery, and never more than 3 years from the act. We publish the 1-year period because that is the deadline that governs most claimants. Qualified-provider claims also go to a medical review panel first.
La. Rev. Stat. 9:5628·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the medical malpractice calculatorLa. Civ. Code art. 2315.2(B) sets a 1-year peremptive period from the date of death, which is separate from the 2-year delictual prescription.
La. Civ. Code art. 2315.2(B)·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the wrongful death calculatorLa. Rev. Stat. § 23:1209·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorTwo years for claims arising on or after July 1, 2024 under Act 423 of 2024. Earlier claims generally remain under the former 1-year rule.
La. Civ. Code art. 3493.1·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the slip and fall calculatorTwo years for claims arising on or after July 1, 2024 under Act 423 of 2024. Earlier claims generally remain under the former 1-year rule.
La. Civ. Code arts. 2315, 2317.1, 2321; art. 3493.1·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the dog bite calculatorLouisiana 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.
- 11 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply the pure comparative negligence rule, and Louisiana 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.
- 5 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and Louisiana 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