North Carolina Comparative Negligence Calculator
North Carolina uses Pure Contributory Negligence. Any fault on your part — even 1% — bars you from recovering anything at all.
Not legal advice — and missing this deadline can end your case. These are general filing deadlines under each state's statute. Your actual deadline can be shorter or longer: many states toll the clock for minors, apply a "discovery rule" when an injury isn't immediately obvious, or give you far less time to sue a government agency. Confirm your specific deadline with a licensed attorney in your state before relying on any date here.
You can recover
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Pure Contributory Negligence
Under Common law rule (no statute) — If you are even 1% at fault, you recover nothing.
North Carolina's statute text isn't in our own statutes database yet, so we can't link you straight to it here.
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and cross-checked against that text, rather than copied from another site's chart — where we found a state's citation didn't match what's commonly cited elsewhere (a recent law change, for example), we used the current statute. Where a state's source text isn't in our database yet, we say so instead of linking to something we haven't verified.