Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Settlement Calculator
Estimate a medical malpractice settlement under Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts 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.
Massachusetts bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 231, § 85·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Massachusetts limits general damages in a medical malpractice case under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 231, § 60H, and we hold the figure. It is not on this page because the same section lets a court award more where there is a substantial or permanent loss or impairment of a bodily function, substantial disfigurement, or other special circumstances. A flat ceiling would be the wrong answer for a claim the exception reaches. The figure and the citation are on the source record. Ask a Massachusetts attorney whether that exception reaches your injury.
Written notice to the provider 182 days before the action is commenced, except where the section provides otherwise. Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 231, § 60L(a) reads: “Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person shall not commence an action against a provider of health care as defined in the seventh paragraph of section 60B unless the person has given the health care provider 182 days written notice before the action is commenced.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete list of what Massachusetts requires before a suit.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 231, § 60L(a)·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.
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 Massachusetts
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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Massachusetts 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.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, § 2A·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorMass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, § 4·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorMass. Gen. Laws ch. 229, § 2·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorMass. Gen. Laws ch. 152, § 41·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorMass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, § 2A·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorMass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, § 2A·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.
- 24 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply modified comparative negligence with a 51% bar, and Massachusetts 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. Massachusetts is one of them.
- 23 of the 51 jurisdictions limit medical malpractice non-economic damages in our data and Massachusetts 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.