A neighbor's dog lunges at your seven-year-old on a Brooklyn stoop, and in three seconds her cheek is torn open. Or you walk into a poorly lit Manhattan lobby and a cracked glass door panel shatters across your face. The wounds close, but the scars don't. A facial disfigurement and permanent scarring case is different from almost every other injury claim in New York, because the harm is visible to every person you meet for the rest of your life. That visibility is exactly why