Kansas Wrongful Death Settlement Calculator
Estimate a wrongful death settlement under Kansas 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 Kansas 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.
Kansas bars recovery if plaintiff is 50% or more at fault.
K.S.A. § 60-258a·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
K.S.A. § 60-19a02; Hilburn v. Enerpipe, Ltd., 309 Kan. 1127 (2019)·Last reviewed 2026-07-29
K.S.A. § 60-3702·Last reviewed 2026-07-30
Any one of the heirs at law who sustained a loss because of the death may bring the action, and another heir who claims to have been damaged by the death may intervene in it. K.S.A. 60-1902 reads: “The action may be commenced by any one of the heirs at law of the deceased who has sustained a loss by reason of the death.” and “Any heir who does not join as a party plaintiff in the original action but who claims to have been damaged by reason of the death shall be permitted to intervene therein.” We read this statute only, so it is not a complete account of Kansas wrongful death law, and how courts have applied it or divided a recovery is not stated here.
K.S.A. 60-1902·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 Kansas
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 Kansas 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 Kansas deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Kansas 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.
K.S.A. § 60-513(a)(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorK.S.A. § 60-513(a)(7), (c)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorK.S.A. § 60-513(a)(5)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorK.S.A. § 44-520a·Last reviewed 2026-07-29
Open the workers compensation calculatorK.S.A. § 60-513(a)(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorKansas 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 Kansas 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 37 jurisdictions' wrongful death statutes. In 20 the personal representative brings the action, in 7 family members or the personal representative may, and the other 10 name a family member, a trustee or a representative, or name who benefits rather than who sues. Kansas's is one of the other 10.
- 23 of the 51 jurisdictions limit medical malpractice non-economic damages in our data and Kansas 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.