Ohio Wrongful Death Settlement Calculator
Estimate a wrongful death settlement under Ohio 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 Ohio 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.
Ohio bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault.
Ohio Rev. Code § 2315.33·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
The figure applied here is Ohio's per-plaintiff ceiling on non-economic damages in a malpractice case. Three things it cannot show you: the limit is a formula tied to your economic damages rather than a flat amount, a single occurrence involving more than one plaintiff carries a higher combined ceiling, and the limit does not apply at all to a permanent and substantial deformity, the loss of use of a limb, the loss of a bodily organ system, or a permanent injury that leaves you unable to care for yourself. Ask an Ohio attorney whether the ceiling reaches your injury.
Ohio Rev. Code § 2323.43·Last reviewed 2026-07-30
The personal representative brings the action for the exclusive benefit of the surviving spouse, children and parents, who are rebuttably presumed to have suffered damages, and of the other next of kin. Ohio Rev. Code § 2125.02(A) reads: “a civil action for wrongful death shall be brought in the name of the personal representative of the decedent for the exclusive benefit of the surviving spouse, the children, and the parents of the decedent, all of whom are rebuttably presumed to have suffered damages by reason of the wrongful death, and for the exclusive benefit of the other next of kin of the decedent.” We read this statute only, so it is not a complete account of Ohio wrongful death law, and how courts have applied it or divided a recovery is not stated here.
Ohio Rev. Code § 2125.02(A)·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 Ohio
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 Ohio 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 Ohio deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Ohio 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.
Ohio Rev. Code § 2305.10·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorOhio Rev. Code § 2305.113·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorOhio Rev. Code § 2125.02(D)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorOhio Rev. Code 4123.84 generally requires a claim within 1 year after the injury, subject to that section's own provisions.
Ohio Rev. Code 4123.84·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the workers compensation calculatorOhio Rev. Code § 2305.10·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorOhio Rev. Code 2305.10 sets a 2-year period for bodily injury, and that is the period our verified research assigns to a dog-bite claim. Ohio also has a separate statutory dog-bite cause of action, and the research did not address whether a claim brought that way runs on a different clock. We publish the shorter figure so the deadline we show is never later than the one that governs. Confirm your own deadline with an Ohio attorney.
Ohio Rev. Code 2305.10·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the dog bite calculatorOhio 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.
- 24 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply modified comparative negligence with a 51% bar, and Ohio 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. Ohio's is one of the 20 where the personal representative brings it.
- 23 of the 51 jurisdictions limit medical malpractice non-economic damages in our data, and Ohio is one of them at $350,000, 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.