North Dakota Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under North Dakota 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 North Dakota 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.
North Dakota bars recovery if plaintiff is 50% or more at fault.
N.D.C.C. § 32-03.2-02·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
A person bringing a claim against the state or a state employee for an injury must present written notice to the director of the office of management and budget within 180 days after the injury is discovered or reasonably should have been, or within one year for a serious injury. N.D. Cent. Code § 32-12.2-04(1)(a), (b) reads: “A person bringing a claim against the state or a state employee for an injury shall present to the director of the office of management and budget within one hundred eighty days after the alleged injury is discovered or reasonably should have been discovered a written notice of the alleged claim stating the time, place, and circumstances of the claim, the names of any state employees known to be involved, and the amount of compensation or other relief demanded.” and “If the claim is one for serious injury, notice must be presented to the director of the office of management and budget within one year after the alleged serious injury is discovered or reasonably should have been discovered.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in North Dakota.
N.D. Cent. Code § 32-12.2-04(1)(a), (b)·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 North Dakota
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 North Dakota 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 North Dakota deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the North Dakota 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.D.C.C. § 28-01-16(5)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorN.D.C.C. § 28-01-18(3)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorN.D.C.C. § 28-01-18(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorN.D.C.C. 65-05-01·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the workers compensation calculatorN.D.C.C. § 28-01-16(5)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorNorth Dakota 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 North Dakota is one of them.
- Its 6 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 North Dakota is one of them: 180 days, under N.D. Cent. Code § 32-12.2-04(1)(a), (b).
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and North Dakota 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.