Montana Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under Montana 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 Montana 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.
Montana bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault.
Mont. Code Ann. § 27-1-702·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Mont. Code Ann. § 27-1-220·Last reviewed 2026-07-30
A claim against the state must be presented in writing to the department of administration, and a complaint may not be filed in district court until the department has finally denied it; the department must decide within 120 days, and not deciding counts as a denial. A claim against a political subdivision must be presented to and filed with its clerk or secretary. Mont. Code Ann. § 2-9-301 reads: “(1) All claims against the state arising under the provisions of parts 1 through 3 of this chapter must be presented in writing to the department of administration. (2) A complaint based on a claim subject to the provisions of subsection (1) may not be filed in district court unless the claimant has first presented the claim to the department of administration and the department has finally denied the claim. The department must grant or deny the claim in writing within 120 days after the claim is presented to the department. The failure of the department to make final disposition of a claim within 120 days after it is presented to the department must be considered a final denial of the claim for purposes of this subsection.” and “(3) All claims against a political subdivision arising under the provisions of parts 1 through 3 shall be presented to and filed with the clerk or secretary of the political subdivision.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in Montana.
Mont. Code Ann. § 2-9-301·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 Montana
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 Montana 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 Montana deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Montana 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.
Mont. Code Ann. § 27-2-204·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
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Open the wrongful death calculatorMont. Code Ann. 39-71-601·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the workers compensation calculatorMont. Code Ann. § 27-2-204·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorMontana 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 Montana 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 Montana is one of them: claim before suit, under Mont. Code Ann. § 2-9-301.
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and Montana 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.