Ohio Dog Bite Settlement Calculator
Estimate a dog bite settlement under Ohio 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 Ohio 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.
Ohio Rev. Code 2305.10 sets a 2-year period for bodily injury, and that is the period our verified research assigns to a dog-bite claim. Ohio also has a separate statutory dog-bite cause of action, and the research did not address whether a claim brought that way runs on a different clock. We publish the shorter figure so the deadline we show is never later than the one that governs. Confirm your own deadline with an Ohio attorney.
Ohio Rev. Code 2305.10·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Ohio bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault.
Ohio Rev. Code § 2315.33·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Ohio does limit non-economic damages in an ordinary injury case, so this is not a state without a cap. Whether the limit reaches your claim depends on the injury: it does not apply to a permanent and substantial deformity, the loss of use of a limb, the loss of a bodily organ system, or a permanent injury that leaves you unable to care for yourself. The limit is also a formula tied to your economic damages rather than a flat amount, so we will not put a figure on it here. Ask an Ohio attorney which limit applies to your injury.
The owner, keeper or harborer is liable for injury the dog causes, unless the person was committing criminal trespass or another crime on the property, committing a crime against a person, or teasing, tormenting or abusing the dog on the property. Ohio Rev. Code § 955.28(B) reads: “The owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog is liable in damages for any injury, death, or loss to person or property that is caused by the dog, unless the injury, death, or loss was caused to the person or property of an individual who, at the time, was committing or attempting to commit criminal trespass or another criminal offense other than a minor misdemeanor on the property of the owner, keeper, or harborer, or was committing or attempting to commit a criminal offense other than a minor misdemeanor against any person, or was teasing, tormenting, or abusing the dog on the owner's, keeper's, or harborer's property.” We read this statute only, so it is not a complete account of Ohio law on dog bites, and how courts have applied it is not stated here.
Ohio Rev. Code § 955.28(B)·Last reviewed 2026-10-16
What partial fault costs you in Ohio
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 Ohio 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 Ohio deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Ohio 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.
Ohio Rev. Code § 2305.10·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorOhio Rev. Code § 2305.113·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorOhio Rev. Code § 2125.02(D)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorOhio Rev. Code 4123.84 generally requires a claim within 1 year after the injury, subject to that section's own provisions.
Ohio Rev. Code 4123.84·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the workers compensation calculatorOhio Rev. Code § 2305.10·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorOhio Rev. Code 2305.10 sets a 2-year period for bodily injury, and that is the period our verified research assigns to a dog-bite claim. Ohio also has a separate statutory dog-bite cause of action, and the research did not address whether a claim brought that way runs on a different clock. We publish the shorter figure so the deadline we show is never later than the one that governs. Confirm your own deadline with an Ohio attorney.
Ohio Rev. Code 2305.10·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the dog bite calculatorOhio 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 Ohio is one of them.
- Its 2 years to file is the same as the most common deadline in the country, which 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. Ohio's is one of the 11 about injury or damage more broadly.
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data. Ohio is one of them and we publish no figure for its limit, so nothing on this page reduces an estimate to one.
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.