New Hampshire Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire 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.
New Hampshire bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 507:7-d·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Before suing a governmental unit (a county, city, town, school district or other political subdivision, but not the state) for bodily injury, its clerk must be notified by registered mail within 60 days after the injury or its discovery of the date, time and location; where the unit says notice was lacking, it must show it was substantially prejudiced. A claim against the state must be brought within 3 years, and the agency given written notice within 180 days; lack of that notice bars the claim only if the agency shows its defense was substantially prejudiced. N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 507-B:7(I), 507-B:1(I), 541-B:14(IV) reads: “As a condition precedent to commencement of the action, the clerk of the governmental unit shall be notified by registered mail within 60 days after the time of the injury or damage or discovery of the injury or damage, if it could not reasonably have been discovered at the time of the occurrence of the injury or damage, as to the date, time and location where the injury or damage occurred, and provided that in any case where lack of written notice, actual knowledge or reasonable opportunity to obtain knowledge of any injury or damage within the 60-day period is alleged by the governmental unit, the burden of proof shall be on the governmental unit to show that it was substantially prejudiced thereby.” and “"Governmental unit" means any political subdivision within the state including any county, city, town, precinct, school district, chartered public school, school administrative unit, or departments or agencies thereof, or any other body corporate and politic within the state, but does not include the state or any department or agency thereof.” and “IV. Any claim submitted under this chapter shall be brought within 3 years of the date of the alleged bodily injury, personal injury or property damage or the wrongful death resulting from bodily injury. As a condition precedent to commencement of the action, the agency shall be provided written notice within 180 days after the time of the injury or damage as to the date, time, and location the injury or damage occurred. The lack of written notice shall not bar a claim unless the agency can show by a preponderance of the evidence that its ability to defend against the action was substantially prejudiced thereby.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in New Hampshire. Read from the Internet Archive's capture of the official page as it stood on 2026-08-10 and 2025-09-24; an amendment after those dates would not show in it. Quoted from a plain-text copy of each capture, made on 2026-10-19 by the operator's assistant from the capture's text; it is not a print of the page.
N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 507-B:7(I), 507-B:1(I), 541-B:14(IV)·Last reviewed 2026-10-19
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 New Hampshire
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 New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the New Hampshire 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.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 508:4·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
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Open the slip and fall calculatorNew Hampshire 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 New Hampshire 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 34 jurisdictions' rules on the notice or claim a government must receive before an injury suit, and New Hampshire is one of them: 60 days, or 180 days for the state, under N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 507-B:7(I), 507-B:1(I), 541-B:14(IV).
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and New Hampshire 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.