Mississippi Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under Mississippi 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 Mississippi 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.
Mississippi uses pure comparative fault.
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-7-15·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-1-60(2)(b)·Last reviewed 2026-07-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-1-65(3)(a)·Last reviewed 2026-07-30
A person with a claim under the Mississippi Tort Claims Act must, after exhausting the governmental entity's own procedures, file a notice of claim with its chief executive officer at least 90 days before suing. Except as section 11-46-20 provides, the action must be commenced within one year after the conduct it is based on; filing a notice of claim within that year tolls the limitation for 95 days from the notice's receipt. Miss. Code Ann. § 11-46-11(1), (3)(a) reads: “(1) After all procedures within a governmental entity have been exhausted, any person having a claim under this chapter shall proceed as he might in any action at law or in equity, except that at least ninety (90) days before instituting suit, the person must file a notice of claim with the chief executive officer of the governmental entity.” and “(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 11-46-20 when the public online registry provided by the Tort Claims Board is incorrect, all actions brought under this chapter shall be commenced within one (1) year next after the date of the tortious, wrongful or otherwise actionable conduct on which the liability phase of the action is based, and not after, except that filing a notice of claim within the required one-year period will toll the statute of limitations for ninety-five (95) days from the date the chief executive officer of the state entity or the chief executive officer or other statutorily designated official of a political subdivision receives the notice of claim.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in Mississippi. The page states it is current with legislation from the 2026 Regular and First Extraordinary Sessions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-46-11(1), (3)(a)·Last reviewed 2026-10-19
What partial fault costs you in Mississippi
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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Mississippi 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.
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorMiss. Code Ann. § 15-1-36·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorMiss. Code Ann. §§ 11-7-13, 15-1-49·Last reviewed 2026-07-29
Open the wrongful death calculatorMiss. Code Ann. § 71-3-35·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorMiss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorMississippi 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.
- 11 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply the pure comparative negligence rule, and Mississippi 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 36 jurisdictions' rules on the notice or claim a government must receive before an injury suit, and Mississippi is one of them: notice 90 days before suit, within 1 year, under Miss. Code Ann. § 11-46-11(1), (3)(a).
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data, and Mississippi is one of them at $1,000,000, 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
Mississippi calculators
Mississippi Slip and Fall questions
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.