Louisiana Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Louisiana law. The calculator applies this jurisdiction's own benefit rate and weekly maximum, and every figure below is the one our verified data holds, with the statute behind it and the date we checked it.
What Louisiana pays, and when you must act
Workers' compensation pays a share of your wage while you cannot work, whoever was at fault, up to a weekly maximum the state sets. Two deadlines run from the injury: one for reporting it and one for filing the claim. Here is what we hold for this state.
Effective September 1, 2026 to August 31, 2027.
La. R.S. 23:1202·Last reviewed 2026-08-25
La. Rev. Stat. § 23:1301·Last reviewed 2026-08-09
“A. A lump sum or compromise settlement entered into by the parties under R.S. 23:1271 shall be presented to the workers' compensation judge for approval through a petition signed by all parties and verified by the employee or his dependent, or by recitation of the terms of the settlement and acknowledgment by the parties in open court which is capable of being transcribed from the record of the proceeding.”
La. R.S. 23:1272(A)·Last reviewed 2026-10-07
What Louisiana pays at different wages
The weekly benefit the calculator above pays at six average weekly wages, and what that comes to over 12 weeks out of work. The numbers are the engine's output, not an editorial claim about what these claims are worth.
Temporary total disability only, run through the calculator above at each wage: no medical costs, no permanent impairment, no waiting period or limit on the number of weeks, and one rate for every week, so a different rate the state sets for part of a claim (see the note under the maximum) is not applied. Below a wage of about $1,355 a week the benefit is 66.67% of the wage; above it, Louisiana's maximum of $903 sets the benefit instead. These wages illustrate the rule; they are not an estimate of your claim.
Every Louisiana deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Louisiana 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.
La. Civ. Code art. 3493.1 reads: "Delictual actions are subject to a liberative prescription of two years." Its source note reads: "Acts 2024, No. 423, §1, eff. July 1, 2024." The one-year article it replaced is printed as: "Art. 3492. Repealed by Acts 2024, No. 423, §2, eff. July 1, 2024." Which period governs an injury sustained before July 1, 2024 is not established here: the Act's transition rule was not read. If your injury was before that date, ask a licensed Louisiana attorney which period applies to your claim.
La. Civ. Code art. 3493.1·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the personal injury calculatorLa. Rev. Stat. 9:5628 requires filing within 1 year of the act or of discovery, and never more than 3 years from the act. We publish the 1-year period. Qualified-provider claims also go to a medical review panel first.
La. Rev. Stat. 9:5628·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the medical malpractice calculatorThe 1 year shown is the earliest a Louisiana wrongful-death deadline can fall, not the deadline itself, because the year runs from the death and a death can come after the injury. La. Civ. Code art. 2315.2(B) reads: "The right of action granted by this Article prescribes one year from the death of the deceased or two years from the day that injury or damage is sustained, whichever is longer." That wording took effect August 1, 2025 under Acts 2025, No. 176, and the Legislature's digest of the Act says: "Prior law provided a prescriptive period of one year for wrongful death actions." For a death caused by medical malpractice, art. 2315.2(F) reads: "The right of action granted by this Article for medical malpractice actions prescribes one year from the death of the deceased." Whether the two-year period reaches a death before August 1, 2025 is not established here. A date one year after the injury is the earliest your deadline can be, not the date it falls. Ask a licensed Louisiana attorney which period applies to your claim.
La. Civ. Code art. 2315.2(B)·Last reviewed 2026-09-24
Open the wrongful death calculatorLa. Rev. Stat. § 23:1209·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorLa. Civ. Code art. 3493.1 reads: "Delictual actions are subject to a liberative prescription of two years." Its source note reads: "Acts 2024, No. 423, §1, eff. July 1, 2024." The one-year article it replaced is printed as: "Art. 3492. Repealed by Acts 2024, No. 423, §2, eff. July 1, 2024." Which period governs an injury sustained before July 1, 2024 is not established here: the Act's transition rule was not read. If your injury was before that date, ask a licensed Louisiana attorney which period applies to your claim.
La. Civ. Code art. 3493.1·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the slip and fall calculatorLa. Civ. Code art. 3493.1 reads: "Delictual actions are subject to a liberative prescription of two years." Its source note reads: "Acts 2024, No. 423, §1, eff. July 1, 2024." The one-year article it replaced is printed as: "Art. 3492. Repealed by Acts 2024, No. 423, §2, eff. July 1, 2024." Which period governs an injury sustained before July 1, 2024 is not established here: the Act's transition rule was not read. If your injury was before that date, ask a licensed Louisiana attorney which period applies to your claim.
La. Civ. Code arts. 2315, 2317.1, 2321; art. 3493.1·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the dog bite calculatorLouisiana 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.
- 39 of the 51 jurisdictions we track pay 66.67% of the wage, the most common rate, and Louisiana is one of them. It applies the rate to gross wages, as 47 of the 51 do; the rest use after-tax earnings.
- Of the 34 jurisdictions with a verified maximum weekly benefit in our data, Louisiana's $903 is the 32nd highest, and they run from $800 in Georgia to $2,431 in Iowa. Each state resets its maximum on its own date, so these are the figures our data holds rather than one day's.
- Louisiana's 1 year to file is shorter than the 2 years that 24 jurisdictions use, so there is less time than a reader comparing states might expect. Across the 51 jurisdictions the deadline for this case type runs from 1 year to 4 years.
- In 44 of the 51 jurisdictions, the statute we read provides for settling or commuting a claim to a lump sum on the terms it states; in 4 it allows one only in the cases it names; and for 3 we could not read an official copy. Louisiana is in the first group.
Comparisons are drawn from the rules that set a benefit, not from closed-claim data, which we do not hold. See the full methodology
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Every document behind our workers' compensation figures, each linked with the date we last read it, is listed on our Workers' Compensation research sources page.