Indiana Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under Indiana 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 Indiana 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.
Indiana bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault. Medical malpractice total cap is $1.8M.
Ind. Code § 34-51-2-6·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Except as the sections provide, a claim against the state is barred unless notice is filed with the attorney general or the state agency involved within 270 days after the loss. A claim against a political subdivision is barred unless notice is filed with its governing body, and in some cases also with the Indiana political subdivision risk management commission, within 180 days after the loss. Ind. Code §§ 34-13-3-6(a), 34-13-3-8(a), (b) reads: “(a) Except as provided in sections 7 and 9 of this chapter, a claim against the state is barred unless notice is filed with the attorney general or the state agency involved within two hundred seventy (270) days after the loss occurs.” and “(a) Except as provided in section 9 of this chapter and subsection (b), a claim against a political subdivision is barred unless notice is filed with: (1) the governing body of that political subdivision; and” and “within one hundred eighty (180) days after the loss occurs. (b) A claim against a political subdivision is not barred for failure to file notice with the Indiana political subdivision risk management commission under subsection (a)(2)” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in Indiana.
Ind. Code §§ 34-13-3-6(a), 34-13-3-8(a), (b)·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 Indiana
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 Indiana 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 Indiana deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Indiana 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.
Ind. Code § 34-11-2-4·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorInd. Code § 34-18-7-1·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorInd. Code §§ 34-23-1-1, -2·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorInd. Code § 22-3-3-3·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorInd. Code § 34-11-2-4·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorIndiana 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.
- 24 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply modified comparative negligence with a 51% bar, and Indiana 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 Indiana is one of them: 270 days or 180 days, under Ind. Code §§ 34-13-3-6(a), 34-13-3-8(a), (b).
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and Indiana 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.