Wyoming Wrongful Death Settlement Calculator
Estimate a wrongful death settlement under Wyoming 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 Wyoming 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.
Wyoming bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault.
Wyo. Stat. § 1-1-109·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Wyo. Const. art. 10, § 4(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Wyo. Const. art. 10, § 4(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
The decedent's wrongful death representative, whom the district court appoints, brings the action for the exclusive benefit of beneficiaries who sustained damage. Each may prove their own damages, which may include loss of probable future companionship, society and comfort. Wyo. Stat. §§ 1-38-102(a), (c), 1-38-103(a) reads: “Every wrongful death action under W.S. 1-38-101 shall be brought by and in the name of the decedent's wrongful death representative for the exclusive benefit of beneficiaries who have sustained damage.” and “Every person for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought may prove his respective damages, and the court or jury may award such person that amount of damages to which it considers such person entitled, including damages for loss of probable future companionship, society and comfort.” and “The wrongful death representative may be appointed by the district court in the county in which:” We read this statute only, so it is not a complete account of Wyoming wrongful death law, and how courts have applied it or divided a recovery is not stated here.
Wyo. Stat. §§ 1-38-102(a), (c), 1-38-103(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 Wyoming
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 Wyoming 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 Wyoming deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Wyoming 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.
Wyo. Stat. § 1-3-105(a)(iv)(C)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
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Open the wrongful death calculatorWyo. Stat. § 27-14-503·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorWyo. Stat. § 1-3-105(a)(iv)(C)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
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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 Wyoming 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. Wyoming's is one of the other 10.
- 23 of the 51 jurisdictions limit medical malpractice non-economic damages in our data and Wyoming 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.