Illinois Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under Illinois 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 Illinois 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.
Illinois bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault.
735 ILCS 5/2-1116·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
A person about to sue the State of Illinois or one of the boards the section names in the Court of Claims for a personal injury must, within 1 year from the injury or accrual, file a notice in the offices of the Attorney General and the Clerk of the Court of Claims giving the details the section lists. For a death, the executor or administrator files within 1 year of the death or of qualifying, whichever is later. No notice is needed if the claim itself is filed within one year of accrual. 705 ILCS 505/22-1 reads: “Within 1 year from the date that such an injury was received or such a cause of action accrued, any person who is about to commence any action in the Court of Claims against the State of Illinois, the Medical Center Commission, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University, the Board of Trustees of Chicago State University, the Board of Trustees of Eastern Illinois University, the Board of Trustees of Governors State University, the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University, the Board of Trustees of Northeastern Illinois University, the Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University, the Board of Trustees of Western Illinois University, or the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, for damages on account of any injury to his person shall file in the office of the Attorney General and also in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Claims” and “In actions for death by wrongful act, neglect or default, the executor of the estate, or in the event there is no will, the administrator or other personal representative of the decedent, shall file within 1 year of the date of death or the date that the executor or administrator is qualified, whichever occurs later” and “A claimant is not required to file the notice required by this Section if he or she files his or her claim within one year of its accrual.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in Illinois.
705 ILCS 505/22-1·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 Illinois
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 Illinois 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 Illinois deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Illinois 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.
735 ILCS 5/13-202·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculator735 ILCS 5/13-212·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculator820 ILCS 305/6(d)·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 Illinois 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 32 jurisdictions' rules on the notice or claim a government must receive before an injury suit, and Illinois is one of them: 1 year, under 705 ILCS 505/22-1.
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and Illinois 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.