Maryland Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under Maryland 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 Maryland 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.
Maryland applies contributory negligence. Any plaintiff fault bars recovery.
Coleman v. Soccer Ass'n of Columbia, 432 Md. 679, 69 A.3d 1149 (2013)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 11-108(b)(2)·Last reviewed 2026-07-31
An action for unliquidated damages against a local government or its employees may not be brought unless written notice of the time, place and cause of the injury is given within 1 year after the injury. A claim against the State must be submitted in writing to the Treasurer within 1 year after the injury and finally denied, and the action filed within 3 years. Both sections let a court entertain the suit without the notice or claim, for good cause, unless the government shows its defense was prejudiced. Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-304(b), (d); State Gov't § 12-106(b), (c)(1) reads: “(b) (1) Except as provided in subsections (a) and (d) of this section, an action for unliquidated damages may not be brought against a local government or its employees unless the notice of the claim required by this section is given within 1 year after the injury. (2) The notice shall be in writing and shall state the time, place, and cause of the injury.” and “unless the defendant can affirmatively show that its defense has been prejudiced by lack of required notice, upon motion and for good cause shown the court may entertain the suit even though the required notice was not given.” and “(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, a claimant may not institute an action under this subtitle unless: (1) the claimant submits a written claim to the Treasurer or a designee of the Treasurer within 1 year after the injury to person or property that is the basis of the claim; (2) the Treasurer or designee denies the claim finally; and (3) the action is filed within 3 years after the cause of action arises.” and “If a claimant fails to submit a written claim in accordance with subsection (b)(1) of this section, on motion by a claimant and for good cause shown, the court may entertain an action under this subtitle unless the State can affirmatively show that its defense has been prejudiced by the claimant’s failure to submit the claim.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in Maryland.
Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-304(b), (d); State Gov't § 12-106(b), (c)(1)·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 Maryland
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 Maryland 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 Maryland deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Maryland 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.
Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-101·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorMd. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. 5-109 requires filing by the earlier of 5 years from when the injury was committed or 3 years from discovery. We publish the 3-year discovery period. A claim goes to the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office first, with an expert certificate.
Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. 5-109·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the medical malpractice calculatorMd. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 3-904(g)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorMd. Code, Lab. & Empl. § 9-709·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorMd. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-101·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorMd. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-101·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the dog bite calculatorMaryland 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.
- 6 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply the contributory negligence rule, and Maryland is one of them.
- Its 3 years to file is longer than the 2 years that 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 Maryland is one of them: 1 year, under Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-304(b), (d); State Gov't § 12-106(b), (c)(1).
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data, and Maryland is one of them at $980,000, so a large non-economic award can be reduced to it.
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.