New Jersey Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under New Jersey 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 Jersey 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 Jersey bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault.
N.J.S.A. §§ 2A:15-5.1 to -5.3·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
N.J.S.A. § 2A:15-5.14·Last reviewed 2026-07-30
A claim for death or for injury or damage to person or property must be presented to the public entity no later than the 90th day after the cause of action accrues; suit may be filed six months after the notice is received. The claimant is barred if the claim was not filed within 90 days, except as section 59:8-9 provides for late notice, or if two years have passed since accrual. A public entity includes the State and any county, municipality or other public body in the State. N.J.S.A. 59:8-8, 59:1-3 reads: “A claim relating to a cause of action for death or for injury or damage to person or to property shall be presented as provided in this chapter not later than the 90th day after accrual of the cause of action. After the expiration of six months from the date notice of claim is received, the claimant may file suit in an appropriate court of law. The claimant shall be forever barred from recovering against a public entity or public employee if: a. The claimant failed to file the claim with the public entity within 90 days of accrual of the claim except as otherwise provided in N.J.S.59:8-9; or b. Two years have elapsed since the accrual of the claim; or” and “"Public entity" includes the State, and any county, municipality, district, public authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision or public body in the State.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in New Jersey. The New Jersey Legislature's statutes database states it is updated through P.L.2026, c.50, and J.R.1; a later law would not show in it.
N.J.S.A. 59:8-8, 59:1-3·Last reviewed 2026-10-17
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 Jersey
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 Jersey 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 Jersey deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the New Jersey 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.J.S.A. § 2A:14-2·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
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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 Jersey is one of them.
- Its 2 years to file is the same as the most common deadline in the country, which 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 31 jurisdictions' rules on the notice or claim a government must receive before an injury suit, and New Jersey is one of them: 90 days, under N.J.S.A. 59:8-8, 59:1-3.
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and New Jersey 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.