California Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under California 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 California 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.
California uses pure comparative fault. Recovery is reduced by the claimant's share of fault with no threshold that bars a claim.
Li v. Yellow Cab Co., 13 Cal. 3d 804 (1975)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
In the Government Code's part on claims against public entities, a claim for death or for injury to a person or to personal property must be presented under its presentation rules within six months after the cause of action accrues; a claim on any other cause of action, within one year. Cal. Gov. Code § 911.2(a) reads: “PART 3. CLAIMS AGAINST PUBLIC ENTITIES [900 - 935.9] ( Part 3 added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1715. )” and “(a) A claim relating to a cause of action for death or for injury to person or to personal property or growing crops shall be presented as provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 915) not later than six months after the accrual of the cause of action. A claim relating to any other cause of action shall be presented as provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 915) not later than one year after the accrual of the cause of action.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in California. Quoted from the operator's text copy of the official page, made on 2026-10-17 by reading the page's text in a browser and saving it as a PDF; it is not a print of the page.
Cal. Gov. Code § 911.2(a)·Last reviewed 2026-10-17
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 California
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 California 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 California deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the California 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.
Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 335.1·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorCal. Civ. Proc. Code 340.5 requires filing by the earlier of 1 year after the claimant discovers the injury or 3 years after the injury itself. We publish the 1-year discovery period. A 90-day notice of intent is also required.
Cal. Civ. Proc. Code 340.5·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the medical malpractice calculatorCal. Civ. Proc. Code § 335.1·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorCal. Lab. Code § 5405·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorCal. Civ. Proc. Code § 335.1·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorCal. Civ. Proc. Code § 335.1; Cal. Civ. Code § 3342·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 California 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 California is one of them: 6 months, under Cal. Gov. Code § 911.2(a).
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and California 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.