New York Dog Bite Settlement Calculator
Estimate a dog bite settlement under New York 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 New York law does to your claim
Four things in state law shape a dog bite claim: how long you have to file, what the state's dog bite statute makes an owner liable for, 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.
New York uses pure comparative fault.
N.Y. C.P.L.R. 1411·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
The owner or lawful custodian of a dangerous dog, as the section uses the term, is strictly liable for medical costs from injury the dog causes to a person, except in the circumstances the section lists. The section does not limit any other claim under common law or statute by a person injured by a dog with a vicious disposition or propensity. N.Y. Agric. & Mkts. Law § 123(10), (12) reads: “The owner or lawful custodian of a dangerous dog shall, except in the circumstances enumerated in subdivisions four and eleven of this section, be strictly liable for medical costs resulting from injury caused by such dog to a person, companion animal, farm animal or domestic animal.” and “Nothing contained in this section shall limit or abrogate any claim or cause of action any person who is injured by a dog with a vicious disposition or a vicious propensity may have under common law or by statute. The provisions of this section shall be in addition to such common law and statutory remedies.” We read this statute only, so it is not a complete account of New York law on dog bites, and how courts have applied it is not stated here.
N.Y. Agric. & Mkts. Law § 123(10), (12)·Last reviewed 2026-10-17
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 New York
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 New York 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 New York deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the New York 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.
N.Y. C.P.L.R. 214(5)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorN.Y. C.P.L.R. 214-a sets 2 years and 6 months (30 months) from the act or omission complained of, or from the end of continuous treatment for the same condition. This field holds whole years, so we publish 2, which understates the period by six months rather than overstating it. You may have up to 30 months. A foreign-object claim runs 1 year from discovery. Confirm your deadline with a New York attorney.
N.Y. C.P.L.R. 214-a·Last reviewed 2026-07-29
Open the medical malpractice calculatorN.Y. E.P.T.L. § 5-4.1·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorN.Y. Workers' Comp. Law § 28·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorN.Y. C.P.L.R. 214(5)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorNew York 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 New York is one of them.
- Its 3 years to file is longer than the 2 years that 23 jurisdictions use. Across the 51 jurisdictions the deadline for this case type runs from 1 year to 6 years.
- We have read the official text of 27 jurisdictions' dog bite statutes. 9 make the owner liable for a bite as such, 11 for injury or damage the dog causes more broadly, and the other 7 turn on something more specific: a presumption about what the owner knew, a dog found dangerous, a dog off its owner's premises or running at large, or medical costs. New York's is one of the other 7.
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and New York 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
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Every document behind our state injury law figures, each linked with the date we last read it, is listed on our State Injury Law research sources page.