New York Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under New York 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 York 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 York uses pure comparative fault.
N.Y. C.P.L.R. 1411·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Where the law requires a notice of claim before suing a public corporation or its officer, appointee or employee on a tort claim, the notice must be served within ninety days after the claim arises; in a wrongful death action the ninety days run from the appointment of a representative of the estate. N.Y. Gen. Mun. Law § 50-e(1)(a) reads: “In any case founded upon tort where a notice of claim is required by law as a condition precedent to the commencement of an action or special proceeding against a public corporation, as defined in the general construction law, or any officer, appointee or employee thereof, the notice of claim shall comply with and be served in accordance with the provisions of this section within ninety days after the claim arises; except that in wrongful death actions, the ninety days shall run from the appointment of a representative of the decedent's estate.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in New York. Read from the Internet Archive's capture of the official page as it stood on 2026-10-09; an amendment after that date would not show in it.
N.Y. Gen. Mun. Law § 50-e(1)(a)·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 New York
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 York 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 York deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the New York 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.Y. C.P.L.R. 214(5)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorN.Y. C.P.L.R. 214-a sets 2 years and 6 months (30 months) from the act or omission complained of, or from the end of continuous treatment for the same condition. This field holds whole years, so we publish 2, which understates the period by six months rather than overstating it. You may have up to 30 months. A foreign-object claim runs 1 year from discovery. Confirm your deadline with a New York attorney.
N.Y. C.P.L.R. 214-a·Last reviewed 2026-07-29
Open the medical malpractice calculatorN.Y. E.P.T.L. § 5-4.1·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorN.Y. Workers' Comp. Law § 28·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorN.Y. C.P.L.R. 214(5)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorNew York 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 New York 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 New York is one of them: 90 days, under N.Y. Gen. Mun. Law § 50-e(1)(a).
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and New York 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.