Texas Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under Texas 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 Texas 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.
Texas bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault.
Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 33.001·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 41.008·Last reviewed 2026-07-30
A governmental unit is entitled to notice of a claim under chapter 101 within six months after the incident, describing the damage or injury, its time and place, and the incident. City charter and ordinance notice periods permitted by law are ratified, and the notice requirements do not apply if the unit has actual notice of the death, injury or damage. Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 101.101 reads: “(a) A governmental unit is entitled to receive notice of a claim against it under this chapter not later than six months after the day that the incident giving rise to the claim occurred. The notice must reasonably describe: (1) the damage or injury claimed; (2) the time and place of the incident; and (3) the incident. (b) A city's charter and ordinance provisions requiring notice within a charter period permitted by law are ratified and approved. (c) The notice requirements provided or ratified and approved by Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply if the governmental unit has actual notice that death has occurred, that the claimant has received some injury, or that the claimant's property has been damaged.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in Texas.
Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 101.101·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 Texas
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 Texas 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 Texas deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Texas 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.
Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorTex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 74.251·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorTex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003(b)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorTex. Lab. Code 409.003·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the workers compensation calculatorTex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003(a)·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 Texas 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 30 jurisdictions' rules on the notice or claim a government must receive before an injury suit, and Texas is one of them: 6 months, under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 101.101.
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and Texas 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.