You get the phone call no family ever forgets. There was an accident at a construction site in Suffolk County, or a complication in a recovery room on Long Island, and your father didn't survive. In the days that follow, well-meaning relatives will tell you that nothing can be done — that the law lets the wrongdoer off the hook once the victim is gone. That isn't true. New York has two separate causes of action that protect families after a fatal accident, and the one most pe