Maine Medical Malpractice Settlement Calculator
Estimate a medical malpractice settlement under Maine 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 Maine 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.
Maine bars recovery if plaintiff is 50% or more at fault.
14 M.R.S. § 156·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
18-C M.R.S. § 2-807(2)·Last reviewed 2026-07-30
The action begins with a written notice of claim under oath. One way the section allows: serve it on the person accused, then file it with the Superior Court within 20 days. 24 M.R.S. § 2853(1) reads: “A person may commence an action for professional negligence by: A. Serving a written notice of claim, setting forth, under oath, the professional negligence alleged and the nature and circumstances of the injuries and damages alleged, on the person accused of professional negligence. The notice of claim must be filed with the Superior Court within 20 days after completion of service; or” We read this section only, so it is not a complete list of what Maine requires before a suit.
24 M.R.S. § 2853(1)·Last reviewed 2026-10-16
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 Maine
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 Maine 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 Maine deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Maine 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.
14 M.R.S. § 752·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculator24 M.R.S. § 2902·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculator18-C M.R.S. § 2-807(2)·Last reviewed 2026-07-29
Open the wrongful death calculator39-A M.R.S. § 306·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 Maine is one of them.
- Its 3 years to file is longer than the 2 years that 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. Maine is one of them.
- 23 of the 51 jurisdictions limit medical malpractice non-economic damages in our data and Maine 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.