A Nassau County electrician picks up a box of drugstore hair dye on the way home from a job in Mineola. Forty minutes after applying it, his scalp is blistering, his face has swollen past recognition, and his wife is driving him to a Long Island emergency room, where he's treated for a severe chemical reaction and airway swelling. The box named the ingredients. It said nothing about what those ingredients could do. Whether he has a viable New York failure-to-warn allergic rea

Your husband was crossing East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx when a driver ran the light. Now he lies in a neuro-ICU bed, eyes sometimes open, sometimes tracking your face, sometimes not. The doctors use words like "minimally conscious" and "disorders of consciousness," and you're left wondering what his life is worth in the eyes of the law. In New York, one of the largest components of a catastrophic injury case is called loss of enjoyment of life — compensation for everything

You're driving home on the Long Island Expressway after a long shift when a rented SUV drifts across two lanes and slams into the driver's side of your car. You wake up in the trauma bay with a shattered femur, a crushed tibial plateau, and a surgeon explaining that you'll need an external fixator, an intramedullary nail, and months of physical therapy. The at-fault driver had a minimum-limits insurance policy. The rental contract on the seat next to the airbag shows a nation