Nebraska Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under Nebraska 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 Nebraska 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.
Nebraska bars recovery if plaintiff is 50% or more at fault.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-21,185.09·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 5; Nebraska Supreme Court precedent·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
A tort claim under the State Tort Claims Act is barred unless made in writing to the Risk Manager within two years after it accrued. A claim against a political subdivision is barred unless made in writing to its governing body within one year after it accrued, and, except as the section otherwise provides, suit must be begun within two years. Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 81-8,227(1), 13-919(1) reads: “every tort claim permitted under the State Tort Claims Act shall be forever barred unless within two years after such claim accrued the claim is made in writing to the Risk Manager in the manner provided by such act.” and “Every claim against a political subdivision permitted under the Political Subdivisions Tort Claims Act shall be forever barred unless within one year after such claim accrued the claim is made in writing to the governing body. Except as otherwise provided in this section, all suits permitted by the act shall be forever barred unless begun within two years after such claim accrued.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in Nebraska.
Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 81-8,227(1), 13-919(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 Nebraska
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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Nebraska 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.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-207·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorNeb. Rev. Stat. § 44-2828·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorNeb. Rev. Stat. § 30-810·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorNeb. Rev. Stat. § 48-137·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorNeb. Rev. Stat. § 25-207·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorNebraska 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.
- 10 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply modified comparative negligence with a 50% bar, and Nebraska is one of them.
- Its 4 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 Nebraska is one of them: 2 years or 1 year, under Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 81-8,227(1), 13-919(1).
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and Nebraska 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.