South Carolina Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under South Carolina 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 South Carolina 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.
South Carolina bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault.
Nelson v. Concrete Supply Co., 399 S.E.2d 783 (S.C. 1991)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-32-530·Last reviewed 2026-07-30
A verified claim for damages under the chapter may be filed with the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the employing agency, or with the political subdivision; if filed, it must be received within one year after the loss was or should have been discovered. An action must be commenced within two years after that date, or within three years if a claim was first filed. S.C. Code §§ 15-78-80(a), (d), 15-78-110 reads: “A verified claim for damages under this chapter, setting forth the circumstances which brought about the loss, the extent of the loss, the time and place the loss occurred, the names of all persons involved if known, and the amount of the loss sustained may be filed: (1) in cases against the State, with the State Fiscal Accountability Authority, or with the agency employing an employee whose alleged act or omission gave rise to the claim; (2) where the claim is against a political subdivision, with the political subdivision employing an employee whose alleged act or omission gave rise to the claim; (3) where the identification of the proper defendant is in doubt, with the Attorney General.” and “(d) The verified claim may be received by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the appropriate agency or political subdivision. If filed, the claim must be received within one year after the loss was or should have been discovered.” and “any action brought pursuant to this chapter is forever barred unless an action is commenced within two years after the date the loss was or should have been discovered; provided, that if the claimant first filed a claim pursuant to this chapter then the action for damages based upon the same occurrence is forever barred unless the action is commenced within three years of the date the loss was or should have been discovered.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in South Carolina.
S.C. Code §§ 15-78-80(a), (d), 15-78-110·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 South Carolina
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 South Carolina 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 South Carolina deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the South Carolina 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.
S.C. Code § 15-3-530(5)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
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Open the slip and fall calculatorSouth Carolina 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 South Carolina 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 South Carolina is one of them: 1 year, if a claim is filed, under S.C. Code §§ 15-78-80(a), (d), 15-78-110.
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and South Carolina 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.