Georgia Wrongful Death Settlement Calculator
Estimate a wrongful death settlement under Georgia 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 Georgia law does to your claim
Four things in state law shape a wrongful death claim: how long you have to file, who the state's wrongful death statute says brings the action, the state's comparative fault rule, and whether the state puts a ceiling on what a jury can award. Here is what we hold for this one.
Georgia bars recovery if plaintiff is 50% or more at fault.
O.C.G.A. § 51-12-33(g)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
For the death of a spouse or parent, the surviving spouse, or if there is no surviving spouse, the child or children, may recover the full value of the life of the person who died. This section covers the death of a spouse or parent only. O.C.G.A. § 51-4-2(a) reads: “(a) The surviving spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse, a child or children, either minor or sui juris, may recover for the homicide of the spouse or parent the full value of the life of the decedent, as shown by the evidence.” We read this statute only, so it is not a complete account of Georgia wrongful death law, and how courts have applied it or divided a recovery is not stated here. The page states it is current through the 2026 Special Session of the General Assembly.
O.C.G.A. § 51-4-2(a)·Last reviewed 2026-10-19
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 Georgia
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 Georgia 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 Georgia deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Georgia 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.
O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorO.C.G.A. § 9-3-71·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorO.C.G.A. § 9-3-33·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorO.C.G.A. § 34-9-82·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorGeorgia 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 Georgia is one of them.
- Its 2 years to file is the same as the most common deadline in the country, which 32 jurisdictions use. Across the 51 jurisdictions the deadline for this case type runs from 1 year to 3 years.
- We have read the official text of 46 jurisdictions' wrongful death statutes. In 22 the personal representative brings the action, in 10 family members or the personal representative may, and the other 14 name a family member, a trustee or a representative, or name who benefits rather than who sues. Georgia's is one of the other 14.
- 23 of the 51 jurisdictions limit medical malpractice non-economic damages in our data and Georgia 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.