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Kansas · State edition

Kansas Medical Malpractice Settlement Calculator

Estimate a medical malpractice settlement under Kansas 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.

Medical Malpractice Settlement Calculator
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Case #3160
Estimated Net Take-Home
$56,160
Likely range $39,312 to $78,624
Breakdown
Economic damages$64,500
Pain & suffering (×2.85)$183,825
Comparative fault (−15%)−$37,249
Coverage / policy cap−$111,076
Attorney fees (33.3%)−$33,300
Case costs−$5,500
Medical liens−$5,040
Net to client$56,160
Your case value exceeds the at-fault party's $100,000 policy limit. The estimate here is capped at that limit. Recovery above it would have to come from another source, such as another policy (including Underinsured Motorist coverage) or the at-fault party directly.
Statute of limitations in Kansas: 2 years to file this claim.
This estimate is for informational and planning purposes only. It is not legal advice, financial advice, or a guarantee of any outcome. Every case is different. Consult a licensed attorney in your state for advice specific to your situation.
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Verified state law

What Kansas 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.

Medical malpractice
2 years

K.S.A. § 60-513(a)(7), (c)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27

Comparative fault rule
modified comparative negligence with a 50% bar

Kansas bars recovery if plaintiff is 50% or more at fault.

K.S.A. § 60-258a·Source retrieved 2026-07-27

Medical malpractice non-economic damages
None on record

K.S.A. § 60-19a02; Hilburn v. Enerpipe, Ltd., 309 Kan. 1127 (2019)·Last reviewed 2026-07-29

Medical malpractice total damages
None on record
Punitive damages
lesser of defendant's highest annual gross income in prior 5 years or $5,000,000; alternative 1.5x profit rule

K.S.A. § 60-3702·Last reviewed 2026-07-30

Before you file
Not yet researched

We have not yet read Kansas's rules on this, so this page does not say whether Kansas 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 Kansas attorney before you file.

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.

The fault rule, in dollars

What partial fault costs you in Kansas

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.

0% at fault
$83,576
25% at fault
$53,186
50% at fault
$0
Barred under this rule
51% at fault
$0
Barred under this rule

One case, run through the calculator above four times with only the claimant's share of fault changed, under Kansas 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.

Filing deadlines

Every Kansas deadline we hold

A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Kansas 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.

Personal injury
2 years

K.S.A. § 60-513(a)(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27

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Medical malpractice
2 years

K.S.A. § 60-513(a)(7), (c)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27

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Wrongful death
2 years

K.S.A. § 60-513(a)(5)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27

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Workers compensation
3 years

K.S.A. § 44-520a·Last reviewed 2026-07-29

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Slip and fall
2 years

K.S.A. § 60-513(a)(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27

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Dog bite
2 years

K.S.A. § 60-513(a)(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27

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How this state compares

Kansas 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 Kansas 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 Kansas's.
  • 23 of the 51 jurisdictions limit medical malpractice non-economic damages in our data and Kansas 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

Kansas Medical Malpractice questions

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.