Arizona Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under Arizona 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 Arizona law does to your claim
Four things in state law shape a slip and fall claim: how long you have to file, how soon a government must be told when it owns the property, 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.
Arizona uses pure comparative fault.
A.R.S. § 12-2505·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Ariz. Const. art. 2, § 31·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
A claim against a public entity, public school or public employee must be filed with the person authorized to accept service for it within 180 days after the cause of action accrues, with the facts and a specific amount for which it can be settled. A claim not filed in time is barred. A.R.S. § 12-821.01(A) reads: “Persons who have claims against a public entity, public school or a public employee shall file claims with the person or persons authorized to accept service for the public entity, public school or public employee as set forth in the Arizona rules of civil procedure within one hundred eighty days after the cause of action accrues. The claim shall contain facts sufficient to permit the public entity, public school or public employee to understand the basis on which liability is claimed. The claim shall also contain a specific amount for which the claim can be settled and the facts supporting that amount. Any claim that is not filed within one hundred eighty days after the cause of action accrues is barred and no action may be maintained thereon.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in Arizona.
A.R.S. § 12-821.01(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.
What partial fault costs you in Arizona
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 Arizona 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 Arizona deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Arizona 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.
A.R.S. § 12-542(1)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorA.R.S. § 12-542(1)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
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Open the wrongful death calculatorA.R.S. § 23-1061(A)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorA.R.S. § 12-541(5); §§ 11-1020, 11-1025·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.
- 11 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply the pure comparative negligence rule, and Arizona is one of them.
- Its 2 years to file is the same as the most common deadline in the country, which 25 jurisdictions use. Across the 51 jurisdictions the deadline for this case type runs from 1 year to 6 years.
- We have read the official text of 30 jurisdictions' rules on the notice or claim a government must receive before an injury suit, and Arizona is one of them: 180 days, under A.R.S. § 12-821.01(A).
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and Arizona 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.