Colorado Medical Malpractice Settlement Calculator
Estimate a medical malpractice settlement under Colorado 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 Colorado law does to your claim
Four things in state law shape a malpractice claim: how long you have to file, what must happen before you 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.
Colorado bars recovery if plaintiff is 50% or more at fault.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-21-111·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Colo. Rev. Stat. 13-64-302(1)(c); HB 24-1472·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Colorado limits the total damages recoverable in a medical malpractice case under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-64-302, and we hold the figure that governs care given this year. It is not on this page for three reasons, any one of which would be enough. The ceiling is written as the greater of a fixed amount or a percentage of another limit, so it is a formula rather than a number. That other limit steps up on a schedule through 2029 and then tracks inflation, so the figure that governs depends on when the care happened rather than on when you read this. And a court may award more than the ceiling for additional economic damages on a showing the statute describes. The current amount, the schedule and the citation are on the source record. Ask a Colorado attorney which ceiling applies to your care.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-21-102·Last reviewed 2026-07-30
R1's note is a notice rule for claims against public entities only, not a requirement for malpractice claims generally, so nothing was read for it. So this page does not say whether Colorado requires a notice to the provider, an expert's affidavit or a review panel before a malpractice suit. That is a gap in our research, not a finding that nothing is required. Ask a licensed Colorado attorney before you file.
Held, not published means our research established a limit for this state and we are not putting a figure on it here. The note under each one says which statute it is and what stops us. The amount and its source are on our record.
What partial fault costs you in Colorado
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 Colorado 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 Colorado deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Colorado 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.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-80-102(1)(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorColo. Rev. Stat. § 13-80-102.5·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorWhich deadline governs a death caused by a motor-vehicle crash in Colorado is not established here. The two years published is Colorado's general wrongful-death period under C.R.S. §§ 13-80-102(1)(d) and 13-80-108(2). C.R.S. § 13-80-101(1)(n)(I), which gives a Colorado car-accident claim three years, covers "All tort actions for bodily injury or property damage arising out of the use or operation of a motor vehicle" and does not mention a death. We have not established whether it reaches a wrongful-death action, because neither of the two sources behind the three-year period addresses one. Treat the two years as the shorter of two readings rather than as the answer, and speak to a licensed Colorado attorney well inside it.
Colo. Rev. Stat. §§ 13-80-102(1)(d), 13-80-108(2)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorColo. Rev. Stat. § 8-43-103(2)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorColo. Rev. Stat. § 13-80-102(1)(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorColo. Rev. Stat. § 13-80-102(1)(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the dog bite calculatorColorado's filing deadline for a motor-vehicle injury claim is three years, under C.R.S. § 13-80-101(1)(n)(I), not the two-year general personal-injury period in C.R.S. § 13-80-102(1)(a). The three-year provision covers "All tort actions for bodily injury or property damage arising out of the use or operation of a motor vehicle", and in City and County of Denver v. Gonzales the Colorado Supreme Court applied it in place of the general two-year period. The same paragraph makes an exception: it does "not apply to any action for strict liability, absolute liability, or failure to instruct or warn governed by the provisions of section 13-80-102 (1)(b) or section 13-80-106". A claim of that kind runs on a different period, which this page does not state because we have not read those two provisions. If any part of your claim is of that kind, speak to a licensed Colorado attorney before relying on three years.
Riding a bicycle? This provision can reach a cyclist's claim in Colorado only where a car or other motor vehicle was involved in the crash, and a crash that involved no motor vehicle runs on Colorado's general personal-injury period instead. The bicycle accident calculator shows the period a cyclist's claim in Colorado is given, and why.
C.R.S. § 13-80-101(1)(n)(I)·Last reviewed 2026-09-23
Open the motor vehicle claims calculatorColorado 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.
- 10 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply modified comparative negligence with a 50% bar, and Colorado is one of them.
- Its 2 years to file is the same as the most common deadline in the country, which 31 jurisdictions use. Across the 51 jurisdictions the deadline for this case type runs from 1 year to 4 years.
- We have read the official text of 26 jurisdictions' rules on what must come before a malpractice suit, and 25 of them require something: a notice to the provider, an expert's affidavit, certificate or opinion, or a review panel. We have not read Colorado's.
- 23 of the 51 jurisdictions limit medical malpractice non-economic damages in our data, and Colorado is one of them at $530,000, 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
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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.