Mississippi Wrongful Death Settlement Calculator
Estimate a wrongful death settlement under Mississippi 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 Mississippi 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.
Mississippi uses pure comparative fault.
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-7-15·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-1-65(3)(a)·Last reviewed 2026-07-30
The action may be brought in the name of the personal representative of the deceased for the benefit of all persons entitled under the law to recover, or by the family members the section names, among them the widow or husband, a parent, a child, a brother or a sister. The list of persons who may bring the action is exclusive. Miss. Code Ann. § 11-7-13 reads: “The action for such damages may be brought in the name of the personal representative of the deceased person or unborn quick child for the benefit of all persons entitled under the law to recover, or by widow for the death of her husband, or by the husband for the death of the wife, or by the parent for the death of a child or unborn quick child, or in the name of a child, or in the name of a child for the death of a parent, or by a brother for the death of a sister, or by a sister for the death of a brother, or by a sister for the death of a sister, or a brother for the death of a brother,” and “The list of persons in this section who may bring a wrongful death action is exclusive and only those persons shall be considered interested parties who are entitled to bring an action under this section.” We read this statute only, so it is not a complete account of Mississippi wrongful death law, and how courts have applied it or divided a recovery is not stated here. The page states it is current with legislation from the 2026 Regular and First Extraordinary Sessions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-7-13·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 Mississippi
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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Mississippi 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.
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
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Open the medical malpractice calculatorMiss. Code Ann. §§ 11-7-13, 15-1-49·Last reviewed 2026-07-29
Open the wrongful death calculatorMiss. Code Ann. § 71-3-35·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorMiss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorMississippi 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 Mississippi is one of them.
- Its 3 years to file is longer than the 2 years that 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. Mississippi's is one of the 10 where family members or the personal representative may.
- 23 of the 51 jurisdictions limit medical malpractice non-economic damages in our data, and Mississippi is one of them at $500,000, so a large non-economic award can be reduced to it.
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.