Washington Slip and Fall Settlement Calculator
Estimate a slip and fall settlement under Washington 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 Washington 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.
Washington uses pure comparative fault.
RCW 4.22.005·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
RCW 4.56.250; Sofie·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
A claim against a local government must be presented to its appointed agent within the limitations period for the action, and no action may be begun until 60 days after the claim is presented; the same 60-day wait follows a claim against the state presented to the office of risk management. The limitations period is tolled during the 60 days. RCW 4.96.020(2), (4); RCW 4.92.110 reads: “All claims for damages against a local governmental entity, or against any local governmental entity's officers, employees, or volunteers, acting in such capacity, shall be presented to the agent within the applicable period of limitations within which an action must be commenced.” and “(4) No action subject to the claim filing requirements of this section shall be commenced against any local governmental entity, or against any local governmental entity's officers, employees, or volunteers, acting in such capacity, for damages arising out of tortious conduct until sixty calendar days have elapsed after the claim has first been presented to the agent of the governing body thereof. The applicable period of limitations within which an action must be commenced shall be tolled during the sixty calendar day period.” and “No action subject to the claim filing requirements of RCW 4.92.100 shall be commenced against the state, or against any state officer, employee, or volunteer, acting in such capacity, for damages arising out of tortious conduct until sixty calendar days have elapsed after the claim is presented to the office of risk management in the department of enterprise services. The applicable period of limitations within which an action must be commenced shall be tolled during the sixty calendar day period.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete account of suing a government in Washington.
RCW 4.96.020(2), (4); RCW 4.92.110·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 Washington
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 Washington 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 Washington deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Washington 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.
RCW 4.16.080(2)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorRCW 4.16.350·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorRCW 51.28.050 generally requires a claim within 1 year of the injury. Occupational-disease claims run on a separate 2-year period under RCW 51.28.055, which this single figure cannot hold.
RCW 51.28.050·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the workers compensation calculatorWashington 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 Washington 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 Washington is one of them: claim, then 60 days, under RCW 4.96.020(2), (4); RCW 4.92.110.
- 7 of the 51 jurisdictions limit non-economic damages (pain and suffering) in our data and Washington 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.