Tesla has settled two lawsuits over 2019 California crash deaths involving the company's autopilot software, court documents show.

The confidential deals come weeks after a Florida jury ordered Tesla pay $US243 million ($364 million) in compensatory and punitive damages to the victims of another fatal 2019 crash of a Model S that was equipped with autopilot.

Tesla hired a trio of prominent new lawyers and asked a judge to find the verdict legally unjustified and throw out the case, or to order a new trial.

The electric vehicle maker, which has settled several other cases involving its vehicles and self-driving technology, had rejected a $US60 million (almost $90 million) settlement proposal for the Florida lawsuit, a filing showed last month.

The Florida verdict and the two settlements

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