Tennessee Car Accident Settlement Calculator
Estimate a car accident settlement under Tennessee 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 Tennessee 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.
Tennessee bars recovery if plaintiff is 50% or more at fault.
McIntyre v. Balentine, 833 S.W.2d 52 (Tenn. 1992)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-39-102·Last reviewed 2026-07-30
Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-39-104·Last reviewed 2026-07-30
What partial fault costs you in Tennessee
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 Tennessee 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 Tennessee deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Tennessee 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.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(1)(A)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorTenn. Code Ann. § 29-26-116·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorTenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(1)(A)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorTenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-203·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorTenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(1)(A)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorTenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(1)(A)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
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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.
- 10 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply modified comparative negligence with a 50% bar, and Tennessee is one of them.
- Its 1 year to file is shorter than the 2 years that 25 jurisdictions use, so there is less time than a reader comparing states might expect. 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 Tennessee is one of them at $750,000, so a large non-economic award can be reduced to it.
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