Utah Medical Malpractice Settlement Calculator
Estimate a medical malpractice settlement under Utah 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 Utah 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.
Utah bars recovery if plaintiff is 50% or more at fault.
Utah Code §§ 78B-5-817 to -818·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Utah limits non-economic damages in a medical malpractice case under Utah Code § 78B-3-410, and we hold the figure. We do not apply it because the Utah Supreme Court has held the cap invalid as applied to wrongful-death damages, and this field cannot tell a survival claim from a death claim. Applying it would put a ceiling on the one kind of claim a court has already said it does not reach. The figure and the citation are on the source record. Ask a Utah attorney whether the limit applies to your claim.
At least 90 days' notice of intent and, except in an action against a dentist or dental care provider, a certificate of compliance from the division that provides the prelitigation panel review, which the statute makes compulsory before litigation. Utah Code §§ 78B-3-412(1), 78B-3-416(1)(c) reads: “A malpractice action against a health care provider may not be initiated unless and until the plaintiff: (a) gives the prospective defendant or his executor or successor, at least 90 days' prior notice of intent to commence an action; and (b) except for an action against a dentist or a dental care provider, the plaintiff receives a certificate of compliance from the division in accordance with Section 78B-3-418” and “The division shall provide a prelitigation review panel to conduct a panel review in accordance with this part, in all malpractice actions against a health care provider, except dentists or dental care providers.” and “A panel review is informal, nonbinding, and not subject to Title 63G, Chapter 4, Administrative Procedures Act, but is compulsory as a condition precedent to commencing litigation.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete list of what Utah requires before a suit.
Utah Code §§ 78B-3-412(1), 78B-3-416(1)(c)·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 Utah
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 Utah 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 Utah deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Utah 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.
Utah's four years comes from Utah Code § 78B-2-307, which opens “An action may be brought within four years:” and lists, at subsection (4), “(4) for relief not otherwise provided for by law.” The one court statement read for this page on which period governs an injury claim is from the Utah Court of Appeals. Penrose v. Ross, 2003 UT App 157, was about whether an amended complaint that named a different defendant related back to the original complaint, and in setting out its premise the court wrote: “The traffic accident from which this suit arose occurred on November 21, 1996. Thus, the statute of limitations for Penrose's claim of negligence expired on November 21, 2000. See Utah Code Ann. § 78-12-25(3) (2002) ("An action may be brought within four years: . . . for relief not otherwise provided for by law.");” It cited the provision under its earlier number, § 78-12-25(3), in the words subsection (4) prints today. That was the premise of a case about something else, not the question the court decided, and no Utah Supreme Court opinion on the period was read for this page. Ask a licensed Utah attorney which period applies to your claim.
Utah Code § 78B-2-307(4)·Last reviewed 2026-09-28
Open the personal injury calculatorUtah Code § 78B-3-404·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorUtah Code § 78B-2-304(2)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorOne year is the earliest a Utah workers' compensation time limit can fall, and it is the limit for medical expenses, not for a claim for disability benefits. Utah Code § 34A-2-417(1)(a) entitles an employee to be compensated for a medical expense only where the employee submits it to the employer or insurance carrier "within one year from the later of: (I) the day on which the medical expense is incurred; or (II) the day on which the employee knows or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known that the medical expense is related to the industrial accident." A claim for temporary total, temporary partial, permanent partial or permanent total disability benefits is barred unless the employee "files an application for hearing with the Division of Adjudication no later than six years from the date of the accident", and the employee must be able to meet the burden of proof "by no later than 12 years from the date of the accident" (§ 34A-2-417(2)). For death benefits, "A claim for death benefits is barred unless an application for hearing is filed within one year of the date of death of the employee." (§ 34A-2-417(3)). Ask a licensed Utah attorney which limit applies to your claim.
Utah Code § 34A-2-417(1)(a)(ii)(B)·Last reviewed 2026-10-04
Open the workers compensation calculatorUtah Code § 78B-2-307(4)·Last reviewed 2026-09-28
Open the slip and fall calculatorUtah 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 Utah 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. Utah is one of them.
- 23 of the 51 jurisdictions limit medical malpractice non-economic damages in our data and Utah 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.