Louisiana Premises Liability Settlement Calculator

Louisiana's pure comparative fault system means you can recover damages from a premises liability even if you were mostly at fault. If you are found 70% responsible for a collision and your damages total $100,000, you would still receive $30,000. This makes virtually every premises liability claim worth evaluating, regardless of the fault split.

Louisiana Civil Code article 3493.1 gives 2 years to file a premises liability lawsuit, counted from the day the injury or damage is sustained. Acts 2024, No. 423 applies that period only to claims arising after July 1, 2024; a claim arising on or before that date falls under the former 1-year period.

Premises liability claims in Louisiana turn on the visitor's relationship to the property. Paying customers and other business invitees are owed the strongest duty: owners must actively inspect the premises and remedy or warn of dangers. Social guests (licensees) are owed a duty only as to known hazards. This framework means the location of your injury — a store, an office, a private home — substantially affects the legal analysis.

To win a Louisiana slip-and-fall or hazard-based premises case, you generally must prove the property owner had actual or constructive notice of the dangerous condition. Constructive notice means the hazard existed long enough that a reasonable owner exercising reasonable care would have discovered it. Evidence of the condition's duration — timestamps on security footage, maintenance logs, witness accounts — is frequently decisive in Louisiana premises cases.